To forgive the unforgivable, if Christ can do that to us, can we do that to others?

靈命日糧 - 2006年8月1日
恩典多多
讀經: 路加福音12章41-48節
金句: 「因為多給誰，就向誰多取；多託誰，就向誰多要。」 （路加福音12章48節）
全年讀經: 詩篇57-59篇 羅馬書4章

我們這個社區裏，有個叫傑夫的年輕人，今年二十歲。他本來應受嚴懲，結果卻得到了意想不到的寬恕。他故意從公路天橋上丟下一塊磚頭，磚頭砸破維琪所駕的車子的擋風玻璃。碎玻璃劃破了維琪的臉，致使右眼外凸，牙齒斷裂。維琪必須接受一連串非常痛苦的外科手術。

傑夫本來以為維琪會心存怨恨，但沒想到，還在等待急救人員趕到時，維琪已經開始禱告，懇求上帝施恩饒恕那個做壞事的人。

後來，維琪還請法官再給傑夫一次機會，最終他被判接受90天的「新兵訓練」。傑夫說：「她真是送了我一份厚禮，我一定要竭盡全力，報答她的大恩大德。幸好她是基督徒，不然的話，我現在一定是在監牢裡。」

這事倘若能讓傑夫相信主耶穌，那是給維琪的最好回報。但傑夫若不肯信耶穌，在末日審判時，他的罪就會更重。耶穌說過：「因為多給誰，就向誰多取。」（路加福音12章48節）上帝給了傑夫很多，也同樣給了你我很多。我們這些相信基督的人，上帝給了我們更大的禮物──那就是耶穌所賜的救贖和赦罪之恩。
對於上帝的恩典，你要何以為報呢？HVL

上帝重價，將我買贖，從今爾後，永屬我主；白白捨去，全無保留，單單事奉，基督我主。Murray

恩典就是上帝把無法賺取的祝福，賜給不配得到的人。


To whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more. —Luke 12:48

Jeff, a 20-year-old in our community, has been given more than he deserves. He had deliberately dropped a brick from a highway overpass that went through the windshield of a car driven by Vickie Prantle. It split open her face, put out her right eye, destroyed her teeth, and necessitated a long series of painful surgeries.

Jeff could have expected Vickie to have a vengeful attitude. But even as she awaited the paramedics, Vickie prayed for the grace to forgive the perpetrator.
Later, she asked the judge to give Jeff a second chance, and he was sentenced to 90 days in a boot camp. “She gave me a gift,” he said, “and I’m going to take it to the fullest extent. I’m very thankful she was a Christian. If she wasn’t, I would still be locked up.”

If that troubled young man puts his faith in Jesus Christ, he will fully reward Vickie for her gift. But if not, his guilt will increase on the final judgment day. Jesus said, “For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required” (Luke 12:48). Jeff has been given much. But so have you and I. We who know Christ have received something much greater—the salvation and forgiveness that Jesus gives.

What will you do with His gift of grace? —Herbert Vander Lugt—Herbert Vander Lugt-->

Thou hast bought us, and no longer
Can we claim to be our own;
Giving freely, naught withholding,
We shall serve Thee, Lord, alone.
—Murray

Grace is an unearned blessing given by God to an unworthy recipient.