Have You Killed Any Cows Lately?

Many of us are like the little boy who had broken the glass of a streetlamp. Greatly disturbed, he asked his father, "What shall I do?" "Do?" exclaimed his father, "Why, we must report it and ask what you must pay, then go and settle it." This practical way of dealing with the matter was not what the boy was looking for, and he whimpered, "I --I--thought all I had to do was ask God to forgive me." I know all kinds of Christians who aren't at all aware of the fact, that if you kill another man's cow, asking forgiveness is only the beginning, for the cow must be replaced, and if you would like my opinion, "it should be replaced with a much better cow than the one killed."