Father, Forgive Them, For They Know Not What They do

We’ve all heard that verse, right? Surely, even those that were not raised in Christian homes.

When Christ was near death, broken, bleeding, while the people who nailed him there taunt him, mocked him, and spit on him.

Did he curse at them? No…

Did he hate them? No…

He asked God to forgive them…

How many of us can say that when someone wrongs us?

I’m “preaching” to myself, here. This is something God has been working on me for a while.

As you may have noticed, I get angry!

I’m human. We all do.

I got angry when I saw FEMEN sawing down a crucifix. I get angry when people crazy for believing in something they can’t understand.

I get angry when people wrong me. I forget that behind the faces that insult me, lays a soul. A human being with feelings just like I do. Someone who God created just like he created me.

I’ve tried to justify my anger.

“They insulted me! They “persecuted” me! I am entitled to anger!”

We all do this. We’re human, right?

Let me tell everyone, including my fellow Christians in America. Most of us don’t know what persecution really is!

What happened during Holy Week in Saudi Arabia was persecution! Not someone telling you that you believe in fairy tales because you read the Bible.

“But we have to do what we can to preserve Christian values in America, Apple!

What are we to do with those who want to destroy Christianity in this country?”

Do ye have such little faith that you honestly think Christianity can be destroyed?

Have you forgotten God’s got a plan? That he knows all? He knows our past, present, and future?

And most of all, have you forgotten the teachings of Christ?

“Matthew 6:14-15

For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.  But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.”

“Mark 11:25

And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins. "

“But what are we to do with them after we forgive them?”

Pray for them. 

“That’s it?”

I never got that. When Christians say “what, just pray?”

To a non-believer, praying may seem like nothing. As if you are just wishing like you would on a star.

There are two things that the Bible says are our most power tools. Love and Prayer.

And when you pray in love, you develop a peace in your soul and you can move mountains!

“We have to love them to?”

Did you forget the greatest commandments?

“30 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.” 31 The second is this, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Yet with this commandment (which fulfills the law. No need to put the 10 commandments in front of the court house when you live by this law!)

Why are we as Christians not known by our love?

Someone pushes us, boy do we push right back.

But that’s not what God told us to do!

Remember “turn the other cheek”?

Remember the Beatitudes?

Remember Christ praying for those who killed him?