We often look at a person and their behaviour and we make judgements based on our own experience without seeing what is going on beneath the surface of their lives.
Jesus could have made the same mistake hanging on the cross between two thieves but despite His own physical pain, His heart was still tuned into the compassion that His father had placed within Him. That is why it was so easy for Him to say to the one thief "today you will be with me in paradise."
Jesus saw through the hardened exterior of the criminal and saw the deep pain he was in and chose to forgive a man who had no hope of ever living a better life.
Can we do the same?
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