punishment

but sometimes if we just look closer or ask all the whys and what happened.....
we will go down to the deepest cause or history event that hurt the person.
sometimes its not even our own fault but because we remind the hurting person
of someone who hurt them in the past.

can u imagine, one day you did something wrong. really wrong. and every
one thought your good friend was the culprit and they beat him up very badly.
He lay in the hospital and bled to death....
All the while saying "It's ok, ******(whatever your name is), i forgive you."
getting punished for a wrong he did not do but because the wrong or the sin
looked like it was his fault? How would u have felt?

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That's exactly what Jesus did for me and you (and the whole world) on the
cross. he took my punishment for all my sin. AND......he said,
"Father, forgive them. they know not what they do."

He didn't only forgive. He pleaded on our behalf for forgiveness.
All the pain and suffering for those hours....
Which would feel like months if u're in that physical state.

(inspired by the bible study discussion and sharing i had today)