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Me:\u00a0 What are you looking at?<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 All the children’s artwork.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Children’s artwork is precious<\/p>\n

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This is from C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity<\/p>\n

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One part of the claim tends to slip past us unnoticed because we have heard it so often that we no longer see what it amounts to.\u00a0 I mean the claim to forgive sins: any sins.\u00a0 Now unless the speaker is God, this is really so preposterous as to be comic.\u00a0 We can all understand how a man forgives offences against himself.\u00a0 You tread on my toes and I forgive you, you steal my money and I forgive you.\u00a0 But what should we make of a man, himself unrobbed and untrodden on, who announced that he forgave you for treading on other men’s toes and stealing other men’s money?\u00a0 Asinine fatuity is the kindest description we should give of his conduct.\u00a0 Yet this is what Jesus did.\u00a0 He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured.\u00a0 He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offences.\u00a0 This makes sense of if He really was the God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin.\u00a0 In the mouth of any speaker who is not God, these words would imply what I can only regard as a silliness and conceit unrivalled by any other character in history.<\/p>\n

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Your Father already knows your needs.<\/p>\n

Luke 12:30<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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