To forgive is to die. It is to give up one's right to self, which is precisely what Jesus requires of anyone who wants to be his disciple. Elisabeth Elliot
Some may remember that Elisabeth, after the murder of her husband, returned to the jungles of South America to live among the pagan natives who had speared Jim Elliot and 4 other missionaries to death. Elisabeth knows about forgiveness.
We learn best from those who put shoe-leather to their words; Saint Elisabeth offers me footsteps she has trod first; now I may follow.
When Jesus, nailed to a Roman cross, prayed, "Father, forgive them," he wielded a weapon against which Caesar himself had no power. The helpless, dying Son of God, a picture of defeat, proclaimed the victory of Inexorable Love. Who can stand up to the force of forgiveness? EE
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