Matthew 5:21-26
We know ourselves to be always unworthy, and it is no mere negative boast, but the truth about us, making it doubly more shameful. Yet the deeper we fall in whatever way, we keep finding the Lord already there, waiting for us. He has become sin for us, He has become our unworthiness, He has exchanged His righteousness for our filthy rags, and yet we do not know how it is we can wear them, wear Him, be clothed in His very flesh.
We only know that He has opened wide His wounds to let us inside, and there, if nowhere else, we are safe.
Forgive me, and pray for me.
This is the most difficult Sunday of the year: not to forgive those who have offended us, but to forgive those who cannot forgive us or accept forgiveness, in reality.
Romanos
We know ourselves to be always unworthy, and it is no mere negative boast, but the truth about us, making it doubly more shameful. Yet the deeper we fall in whatever way, we keep finding the Lord already there, waiting for us. He has become sin for us, He has become our unworthiness, He has exchanged His righteousness for our filthy rags, and yet we do not know how it is we can wear them, wear Him, be clothed in His very flesh.
We only know that He has opened wide His wounds to let us inside, and there, if nowhere else, we are safe.
Forgive me, and pray for me.
This is the most difficult Sunday of the year: not to forgive those who have offended us, but to forgive those who cannot forgive us or accept forgiveness, in reality.
Romanos
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