Forgiving
Once Again
Over
and over the Holy Spirit gently continues to nudge us about the value and
obedience of forgiving those whom have hurt us. People become hurt by those who
make selfish decisions and this affects everyone around them, especially their
loved ones and it is the loved ones who become spawned with the pain of
reliving those memories in their mind, until they decide to give it up and let
it go once and for all. So many of us have been hurt in such unthinking and
callous ways, we would ask how we could even begin to release the pent up anger
into a forgiving decision.
Forgiveness is for
someone who desires to become strong in their life. To stay unforgiving is to
stay angry and weak, nurturing that sore until it festers into a big open wound
for everyone to see. They will see what is in your heart by the expressions on
your face. Those little secret thoughts that we harbor at times, aren’t really
secret when you realize that everything we think about eventually ends up on
our face. Our eyes begin to tell on us, as you know; they are the windows of
the soul. The truth is, if you are a
Christian; you already know there isn’t an option to forgiveness. There are
times when we have to work it through. One of the best and wisest solutions
that has helped me over the years is to think about my own heart and what I
have harbored there at times and think about how I am guilty myself of hurting
other people. Did you know a sly remark or a wrong look can hurt someone? We
can hurt people every day without realizing it, but few people will come up to
you and tell you how you made them feel so ugly inside. And, on it goes; they
in return have to work out their own forgiveness towards you.
If you are on planet
earth and have breath, you will know the pain of rejection, the pain of being
lied to and the pain of betrayal. The more you trusted in that person the
deeper the hurt will be and after the dust has settled, you will have to deal
with the anger and unforgiving heart that you developed. No, life just isn’t
fair but you can begin to be as gentle as a dove, strong enough to spit nails
and wise enough to start to look past the others sin. I say, “train yourself to
look past the other’s sin, so they will look past yours.”
If you have found yourself in an impossible situation where forgiveness is out of the question such as abuse. My advice to you is to get physically out of that situation and begin to work on forgiving one rain drop at a time. Before you know it, you will experience how free and clean you will feel by the washing of the water and the word.
