A Christlike attitude can motivate those who need forgiveness to seek it.
Acts 7
What a remarkable example of boldness to speak the truth at all costs and then to follow with a willingness to have a forgiving heart toward those who were killing him, even though they did not ask or felt as though they needed forgiveness. Those doing the stoning and consenting to it, certainly had a responsibility to seek forgiveness, however, Stephen’s willingness to cry out, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin…” Acts 7:60 displays a Christlike attitude (Luke 23:34) that can cause those in sin to seek the forgiveness needed.
Stephen demonstrates Christlike characteristics that we all should strive to have.
“When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord, and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep. Acts 7:54-60
Prospering Pathway 
Leave a comment