So what about justice?
Is it fair that someone who murders or rapes a family member of mine is extended grace? I’m just suppose to forgive and forget? Are we saying you should continue to live in an abusive situation and turn the other cheek? It doesn’t seem fair and it doesn’t seem right.
I was thinking about this earlier in the day and trying to answer my own questions.
I was just reading The Prophetic Imagination, and stumbled across this.
"I am aware that this runs dangerously close to passivity, as trust often does, and that it stands at the brink of cheap grace, as grace must always do. But that risk must be run because exiles must always learn that our hope is never generated among us but always given to us. And whenever it is given we are amazed."
So the quote doesn’t directly answer my questions. But it’s a start and it reminds me that this grace stuff is not always easy to understand or apply at least not for me anyway.
1 comment:
Forgive and forget? I think that is something we should do. Is that not what God does when we are given grace through the cross? Are we not called to do the same? I think the hard part is to actually do those two things- forgive and forget. Especially to forget.
To forgive and forget makes me think of apartheid and slavery in the U.S. If the U.S. did the same thing that South Africa did with forgivness after apartheid what would the U.S. look like? Would it be better for the U.S. to go through something like that? Or would it be better if South Africa just did what the U.S. did?
J
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