The Prositutes and Their Children
The
locals had gathered to protest and to threaten to demolish an old and
dirty building that housed hundreds of prostitutes and their
illegitimate children, a place they regarded as a great shame to the
town. But they were in for a greater shame!
A few of the prostitutes
stepped forward, pointed to the many fatherless and pitiful children
and uttered these few but pungent words:
"Look at these children! Their fathers could be standing among you all now!"
The above incident sounds like a good example in our modern society of
the story of the woman caught in adultery but who was rescued and
forgiven of her sin by Jesus Christ. (John 8:1-11)
What is more
important is not the outcome of the incident but the moral lessons it
embodies. We are to be compassionate, merciful and forgiving when
judging or punishing those regarded as wrong doers, being mindful that
we are also fallible human beings.
Crimson Woo
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