No one deserves forgiveness. Yet, if we ask God for it, we receive it. I'm dealing a lot with asking forgiveness from people because of my actions in the past and I believe God is working through this. Something that has caught my attention, probably because I work with it every day, is the story of Jonah. I mean, just think about Nineveh, a city that is entirely corrupt with thousands of people who have no desire to be righteous. Along comes an unwilling prophet to say they will be destroyed. The entire city repents and is forgiven. What?!?! That doesn't make any logical, fallen man, current societal sense. Yet God forgives. Even more so, when Peter asks Jesus how many times he should forgive someone. Peter probably thinks he's pretty righteous and generous with his number of 7 times. Jesus says, no no no, 70*7. So 490 times. No, not 490 times. Jesus' point is not a number, it's the fact that the amount of times you forgive someone should not matter, despite what he/she has done. Why is this? We are to live a Christ like life, and he did not put a limit on his forgiveness.
The show Jonah at Sight and Sound is going to be amazing. The entire world should see it.
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