Unpacking Forgiveness by Chris Brauns

Author:Chris Brauns [Brauns, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781433504846
Publisher: Crossway

At last, on August 20, 1945 parachutists dropped into the prison camp and freed the prisoners from their cells. DeShazer was nearly dead physically, but he was a new man spiritually. He returned to the United States and attended Bible college. His heart now overflowed with such love that he decided to become a missionary to Japan.

DeShazer wrote out his story and distributed it in Japan. One of the people who read it was Mitsuo Fuchida, who was gripped by DeShazer’s story. He wrote:

[DeShazer’s testimony] was something I could not explain.

Neither could I forget it. The peaceful motivation I had read about was exactly what I was seeking. Since the American had found it in the Bible, I decided to purchase one myself, despite my traditionally Buddhist heritage.

In the ensuing weeks, I read this book eagerly. I came to the climactic drama—the Crucifixion. I read in Luke 23:34 the prayer of Jesus Christ at His death: “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” I was impressed that I was certainly one of those for whom He had prayed. The many men I had killed had been slaughtered in the name of patriotism, for I did not understand the love which Christ wishes to implant within every heart.

Right at that moment, I seemed to meet Jesus for the first time. I understood the meaning of His death as a substitute for my wickedness, and so in prayer, I requested Him to forgive my sins and change me from a bitter, disillusioned ex-pilot into a well-balanced Christian with purpose in living.

That date, April 14, 1950—became the second “day to remember” of my life. On that day, I became a new person. My complete view on life was changed by the intervention of the Christ I had always hated and ignored before.14

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