Repentant Heart 悔改的心

in #life6 years ago

According to a well known Chinese saying, “There is no better thing than changing a wrong behaviour after realising such mistake.” (知错能改,善莫大焉!) In other words, people need to be given an opportunity to repent so that they can live a new life.

However, do people in general and the society as a whole provide such opportunity to the wrong doers or sinners?

Apparently, the ex-prisoners or ex-drag addicts find it very difficult to commence a new life due to label related to their past, and people are hesitant to trust them. In a way, they do not receive enough encouragement to start a new life. Without sufficient acceptance, they may revert back to their old life-style.

Our society is more inclined to punish rather than to restore the wrong doers. Shouldn’t the punishment be a form of discipline in preparation for the wrong doers to start a new life? Can our society become better as no one is perfect and liable to make mistakes?

Hopefully, we will have a better society through a proper measure. But, is it through law or grace?
Perhaps, we do need law as a boundary to restrain and guide the incomprehensible human heart. Yet, without grace, there can never be a transformed life even though there is a repentant heart.

中国人的名言:”知错能改,善莫大焉!” 即是说没有比知道错误,而能够改过更好的事了。这也意味着人们需要有机会悔改,才能够过上新的生活。

但是,一般人和整个社会是否有为悔过者或罪人提供重新开始的机会呢?

显然,前囚犯或前吸毒者由于标签,而很难开始新的生活,况且一般的人也不愿意相信他们。他们因为没有獲得足够的鼓励和接纳,会变得自爆自棄,並可能再次回到过去的生活方式。

我们的社会较倾向惩罚多于容讓犯错者獲得新生。難道惩罚不也是一种管道或纪律以幫助悔过者预備进入新的开始吗?既然没有人是完美的,而且人也可能犯错,我们的社会还可能变好吗?
相信通过适当的措施,我们是可能建立一个更好的社会。但是,所谓适当的措施它是指法律还是恩典呢?

或许,我们确实需要法律以便限制和引导难以识透的人心和行为。然而,如果没有恩典,即使有了悔改的心,生命也不会被轉化。

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