i love the story of the workers and how everyone gets the same pay. it is a little unsettling though. it's cool because even though i'm a screw up, i get heaven just as much as paul. but it's unsettling that jeffery dahmer gets heaven just as much as me.
Jeff confessed to me his great remorse for his crimes. He wished he could do something for the families of his victims to make it right, but there was nothing he could do. He turned to God because there was no one else to turn to, but he showed great courage in his daring to ask the question, ‘Is heaven for me too?’ I think many people are resentful of him for asking that question. But he dared to ask, and he dared to believe the answer.''
vs17-19 As Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside by themselves, and on the way He said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priest and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death, and will hand Him over to the Gentiles to mock and scourge and crucify Him, and on the third day He will be raised up.”
so did they actually listen to him or just pretend to be listening? i wonder what i would have been like in that situation. i guess i don’t always think the best under stress. i can see how maybe they “forgot” these words. or maybe they just didn’t really believe Jesus when he said it.
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So I was sitting in Sunday School a few weeks ago, and Jeffery Dahmer came up. It was discussed about all the wrong he did, the fact that he chose to follow Christ in prison and began a ministry while in prison. Then he was murdered. This lady described this as 'justice.' Justice? I beg to differ?
What do you think?
well I guess it's not really for us to classify the act... but did she mean justice in terms of divinely dispensed or what? Because if we are speaking in terms of things divinely dispensed, it sounds a whole lot more to me like mercy than justice.
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