Sunday, January 07, 2007
Hmmm... Just a thought... What exactly does one mean when one say "I'm giving you one chance?" You know, we hear it all the time. Mobster tells hostage in the movie... "Look here, we is giving you one last chance to tell us..." Hey, that's the movies. We're talking a little judgemental here aren't we? Like to bring up a question... Since when everyone has assumed the role of God and decide to "grace" which other with, more cliche known, one last chance?
Well, in the Old Testament, God didn't give His people chances when He flooded the earth in that well known story of the Ark. But immediately after, God made a covenant with Noah saying, "With these words I make my covenant with you: I promise that never again will all living beings be destroyed by a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth... That is the sign of the promise which I am making to all living beings." God gave us, his sinful people infinite chances. In Genesis 18:16-33, Abraham pleaded with God to spare Sodom, and guess what... God didn't give them one last chance. He gave them sooo many chances that in the end, He didn't touch Sodom. And again in parable of Tenants in the Vineyard, Matt 21: 33-43, the tenants turned away every servant that the owner sent and finally they did away with the owner's son. At the end of the day, God still welcomes us with open arms into His Kingdom. How do we know that? It is fulfilled when Jesus, hanging from the cross said to the prisoner who was crucified with him, "I promise you that today you will be in Paradise with Me."
Such is the love of God for us. As Christians, we strive again and again to be Christ-like. In our daily struggles to be more like Him, we definitely fall short. Fall short of God, of our families, of friends, of colleagues. In our everyday fight to be like Christ, I think it is essential to be graceful enough to accept the way we are, the way others are around us. Let us not throw 'chance threats' to each other. On a lighter note, if God condemned that one fella, would he have already ceased to exist? If he/she is still breathing, I think God has already seen beyond all faults and granted His everlasting love and mercy to whoever that sinner is.
Let us remind ourselves of this divine act whenever we are tempted to "write that bloody bastard's name into the death note". But seriously, we are definitely not qualified to pass that kind of judgement over anyone.
Amen.
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