Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“The Lord said to Moses, ‘Cut two tablets of stone like the former ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets, which you broke.”
NL Daily Devotion for Monday, September 7, 2020
by Daniel D. Maurer, Clergy Stuff
You really do have to wonder how in the world the Israelites had made it through the desert at all. Time and time again, they goofed up. And time and again, there God (and Moses, by association) was there to make it up to them.
But, what were they gonna do? Go home and leave the Israelites there to rot?
It brings up the question, though, of second chances. At what point do we stop giving any more chances to another?
Seeing as God, time and time again, not only doled out third, fourth, and fifth, maybe there is good cause to rethink our own capacity to forgive.
I know there’s the issue of co-dependency—no one should get caught up in that rodeo. At the same time, we’re given a limited time to live on earth. It begs the question . . .
What do you think, is there a “line” that we should never be willing to cross, past which we stop forgiving? What are your thoughts?
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