[Ohio-Communities-of-Faith] FW: [CWWC] SUPERHUMAN FORGIVENESS: THE CROSS

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SUPERHUMAN FORGIVENESS: THE CROSS


Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are
doing."
<https://link.biblegateway.com/click/23333275.3962/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmlibGVnY
XRld2F5LmNvbS9wYXNzYWdlLz9zZWFyY2g9THVrZS4yMy4zNA/5ef562bd10222374f46b6174B4
12b312c> Luke 23:34

Today's devotional again comes from a Chinese house church pastor who was
arrested and held for three weeks just prior to this talk. He says his
experience was going with Christ to the Garden and to the Cross. Today he
explains The Cross:

This is what amazed me the most. Whenever I was beaten up (and that was
quite often during those three weeks), I would first feel searing pain, and
then another feeling would flood in, almost wiping the pain away. Do you
know what that feeling was? Pity. Pity for the man who was beating me.

I kept seeing my interrogator as a man gone wrong. I felt sorry for his
mother, who would be so ashamed of him. I wondered what kind of father he
must have had, to turn him into such a monster. I felt sad to be in the
presence of one of God's creatures that could treat another human so badly
with so little concern.

Then I would get amazed at myself. Through the pain I would think, "I should
be angry, but I'm not, all I want is for this man to be saved." I had three
ribs and a wrist broken, two teeth knocked out, my kidneys were
malfunctioning, and yet all I could wish for was for the man beating me to
find Christ and forgiveness.

Now I agree with that young sister. It sounds very strange. It doesn't even
ring true. It's more human to be angry, or to be afraid. But I can only say
this was not myself making me feel that way, but Christ within me. It was
superhuman. It was Divine. And to this day, it serves as the greatest
assurance I have that I am saved.

Again, this is also the way of Christ. In
<https://link.biblegateway.com/click/23333275.3962/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmlibGVnY
XRld2F5LmNvbS9wYXNzYWdlLz9zZWFyY2g9THVrZS4yMy4zNA/5ef562bd10222374f46b6174C4
12b312c> Luke 23:34, He says from the Cross itself, in the midst of
excruciating pain, "Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are
doing." I tell you, it gives you such a thrill to know that you feel as
Christ felt. That's why suffering is counted such a joy, such a privilege.
It confirms to the sufferers that they are Christ's, and He lives in them.
We don't have to trust a word that this is so. We feel it in our very
breastbones.

RESPONSE: Today I will forgive those who are causing me grief as Jesus would
and did on the cross.

PRAYER: God, fill me with Your superhuman forgiveness so that I may walk
today as Jesus did in forgiving those harming Him. Help me also feel pity
and compassion for those who so easily treat others badly.

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