For preparation of the Bible teaching this week, I re-read What's So Amazing about Grace. As I'm also reading parts of The Cost of Discipleship, it's funny how a quote of it appears in the Philip Yancey book.
Philip Yancey is talking about how unnatural an act of forgiveness is and even after forgiveness the wound is still there. And it's a peculiar quality in Christians.
Bonhoeffer talked about "loving your enemies" while being persecuted by Nazis.
Through the medium of prayer we go to out enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God. Jesus did not promise that when we bless our enemies and do good to them they will not despitefully use and persecute us. They certainly will. But not even that can hurt or overcome us, so long as we pray for them... We are doing vicariously for them what they cannot do for themselves.
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