Has anyone prayed or heard of this? I am kind of hesitant in saying the first lines of the prayer which seems to involve forgiving God. Is it not suppose to be the other way around?
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With all due respect, God can be quite unfair at times. I think He’s unfair to a lot of people. One person is born into wealth and privelege - another is born into absolute poverty all their life. One person has great health - another endures painful and frustrating disabilities all their life.
I wonder how the man born blind felt about being that way so God could use him as an example - “Tough, kiddo, you’re blind, and you’ll stay that way for quite a long time because I’m going to use you for an example! And the leaders will blame you too - they’ll say you or your parents sinned, whereas in fact I’m responsible,** but you’ll get the blame**!”
For a “biblical example”, take Job - we might say the devil was ultimately responsible, but God also deliberately let the devil target Job, including killing all his children, wiping out his entire economic base, causing his wife to despise him, cover him in boils, and then alllowed a bunch of sanctimonius twerps tell Job it was all his own fault, for days on end.
I’d hardly call that fair. I think Job would have been quite within his rights to have to forgive God.
I even had my old pastor say to me, “I think God might want you to forgive Him (for being so unfair). After all He’s had to forgive you a few things.”
I don’t have a problem with the issue of forgiving God. As I said, He can be very unfair.
Take Saint Teresa when she blamed God for one particular incident, “Is this how you treat your friends?” to which she got the reply, “This is how I treat all my friends”. She snarled back, “Then it’s no wonder you’ve got so few of them!”
She might have had to forgive God a thing or two. Maybe God wants us to forgive Him as part of the process of being one of His children, or being part of the family so to speak.
