“Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” – Mark 2:7.
MIROSLAV Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and is the founder and director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. He was educated in his native Croatia, the United States, and Germany, earning doctoral and post-doctoral degrees (with highest honors) from the University of Tübingen, Germany.
In his book “Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace”, Volf writes the following on participating in God’s forgiveness: “It’s so crucial to see our forgiving not simply as our own act, but as participation in God’s forgiving. Our forgiving is faulty; God’s forgiving is faultless. Our forgiving is provisional; God’s is final. We forgive tenuously and tentatively; God forgives unhesitantly and definitively…. The only way we dare forgive is by making our forgiving transparent to God’s and always open to revision. After all, our forgiveness is only possible as an echo of God’s.”
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When we forgive others we bring glory to Jesus. Today in prayer, thank Jesus for His forgiveness and forgive those who have wronged you.
“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.” – Jean Paul Richter
God’s Word: “The other guests began to say among themselves, ‘Who is this who even forgives sins?’” – Luke 7:49. (Peter Kennedy)
