“Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” – Luke 23:34, WEB-BE
Sometimes, people are not really as bad as they seem to be. That is why we should give a little more room to doubt rather than judgment, and to forgiveness rather than hate.
It’s not always easy to understand where people are coming from. We can try our very best to guess, but that doesn’t mean we’d be a hundred percent correct.
We may see people acting in annoying ways today and then see them doing kindly deeds tomorrow. We may hear people saying hurtful words today and then see them encouraging others sometime soon.
We can easily get discouraged if we judge people just by what we see and know about them today. But there is hope when we remember that every human being has been created in the very image of God. Somehow, this hope can lead us to believe in the goodness that can still remain in one’s soul. Somehow, we can humble ourselves in not knowing whether the people we find so sinful today will be the heroic saints of tomorrow, praying for us and guiding us when we ourselves have lost our way.
“For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more–remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men’s hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Find hope in your darkest hour.
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One reply on “Have a Little More Faith”
Loved the quote from Tolkien, a bastion and herald of Christianity, who, with C. S. Lewis, never cease to inspire me. The “saints” who have gone before us ever inspire and amaze!
Thank you for your inspiration here, Joyce! Blessings!