tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329258274202118997.post5300307155180733108..comments2023-11-02T04:59:44.598-07:00Comments on Reflections: Matthew 18:23-35 Debts and ForgivenessAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10810102648783268285noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329258274202118997.post-68284456343942295882016-09-06T09:09:55.182-07:002016-09-06T09:09:55.182-07:00@Sean Killackey: Good points my dear brother. Agai...@Sean Killackey: Good points my dear brother. Again, it is always admirable to find a young man that takes his spirituality seriously. To me, it seems the point you make (in your comment above) and the one I made in my article, are slightly different. I was trying to drive home, not how unrighteous we are in comparison to God's holiness (as if there could even be a comparison), but how indebted to our God we are. The absurdity of having to live over 2,000 lifetimes just to pay the debt of our sinfulness and imperfections in this lifetime is humbling.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10810102648783268285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329258274202118997.post-12407088780440078152016-09-05T21:58:35.527-07:002016-09-05T21:58:35.527-07:00We do tend to think of ourselves as pretty good pe...We do tend to think of ourselves as pretty good people, and I suppose, that if we are talking in relative terms, say, person to person, or compared to what the average person is like, this is fine. But the case of Isaiah before God with the angels singing, "Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of armies, the earth is filled with his glory," is quite enlightening. Isaiah, while a righteous man, became quickly aware of his pitiable state before our perfectly holy God, and said, "Woe is me, for I, a sinful man, have seen the great King himself, Jehovah of armies."<br /><br />If that is how we felt all of the time, that before the one to whom we will have to make an accounting we have nothing of our own on which we can rely upon, we will be quite ashamed and terrified. Yet we have God's love, who desires to draw near us sinful and impure beings, and who has bought us with the price of his Son. That should move us to display the same generous and reconciliatory spirit that he shows. Knowing that compared to us, they are not as pitiable as we are all to Jehovah who alone is holy.Sean Killackeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08683592785735127212noreply@blogger.com