A Fathers Son was brutally murdered by one of the must
vicious and sadistic persons in the world. (Here are 5 endings to the story, you
pick)!
1) The Father goes and gets a gun and shots the murderer
dead in the streets. (This is Revenge)
2) The Father helps the authorities track down, convict
and sentence the murderer to death by electrocution. (This is Justice)
3) The Father helps the authorities track down and
convict but before the judge passes down the verdict, the Father asks the judge
to lighten the sentence to life in prison, with no parole, so he does. (This is
Mercy)
4)The Father helps
the authorities track down the murderer but before the trial the Father asks to
talk with the judge privately. The Father tells the judge he wants to forgive
the murderer, and drop ALL charges on the murderer and let him walk free. The
judge allows the murderer to walk free!
(This is Forgiveness)
5) The Father helps the authorities track down the
murderer but before the trial the Father asks to talk with the judge privately.
The Father tells the judge he wants to forgive the murderer, drop ALL charges
on the murderer, adopt the murderer into His family, take care of the
murderer and live in His custody the rest of the murders life. The judge agrees! (This is Grace)
Which would you do if you were in the Fathers shoes?
If you are saved
and reading this you were NO different from the vicious and sadistic murderer
before God provided you with His grace through His Son Christ Jesus!
"Nobody is born into this world a child of the family of God. We are born as children of wrath. The only way we enter into the family of God is by adoption, and that adoption occurs when we are united to God’s only begotten Son by faith. When by faith we are united with Christ, we are then adopted into that family of whom Christ is the firstborn."~R.C. Sproul
