Today´s
(27.10) gospel talks about how Jesus takes a hand of a paralised and says: Your
sins are forgiven!
Forgiving
or not doing so is a way of showing your power. Either we forgive or not, we
have some power over the person we are interacting at that point. So that means
that one of the interactive parts is weaker than the other.
But not
always. If we forgive to someone we deeply love, if we truly really forgive,
then the power aspect is gone. Cause true love does not have power in it. If
there is even a small amount, then it is not a true love, then it can be
pityness, superiority or something else.
In Estonian
love and grace come from the same root, so they have a very close meaning. Arm
as grace and armastus as love. If we receive grace, are we then loved?
I think
that the worse feeling one can have, is the time you have done absolutely
everything that is in your power in order to be forgiven, but yet the other one
just wouldn´t do so. Then there is nothing left than grace. Grace by God. God
with his unconditional love which comes down to us as grace. By faith alone. By
grace alone.
So the
first step towards true love is to forgive. Truly forgive, totally. With no
power left into that relationship. Only then true love can emerge.
Photo: FB Mindful Christianity Today
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