FORGIVE!
Col 3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one
another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so
also do ye.
Mat 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our
debtors.
Mat 6:14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your
heavenly Father will also forgive you:
Mat 6:15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses,
neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
FORGIVE!
Stop holding
grudges! It doesn't matter what has been
done to you, and I mean that! I do, I really, really do. No, I haven't been
through a lot of awful things others have been through and maybe it is easy for
me to say this, I don't know. I have had my share of hard knocks, my share of
private agonies that have given me the need to forgive others so I do
understand that it isn't always easy to forgive. I have also been in need of forgiveness, a
lot of forgiveness.
Maybe it's because I
need to be forgiven so much that I know I have to forgive those who have
wronged me.
It's not always the
case for people though, is it? Needing
to be forgiven equally to forgiving others. Some people have to forgive
horrific things when they've never done anything nearly as horrific as what was
done to them. Some are quite innocent in
the grand scheme of things compared to the awfulness they endure. Yet there is something we do need to remember
perhaps, something that puts things into perspective a little tiny bit-
A single sin left
unforgiven by our Savior warrants death.
And that single sin warrants death because that unforgiven sin no matter
how tiny separates us from our God. And
when we are separated from God we are separated from the very source of life
eternal. If we separate ourselves from
the source of eternal life we have no eternal life, we have death.
No sin should be
left unforgiven.
If we need to
forgive someone for a one time horror, or a slew of horrors, then that is what
we need to do because we need every single one of our sins to be forgiven.
People will say they
can never forgive the horrors beyond imagining, and shouldn't have to. They say
this without realizing that our forgiving others HELPS US! It is in a way- self serving to forgive, to
truly forgive.
And when we say we
need to forgive someone we must forgive entirely. Forgiving means recognizing
the wrong and choosing to NOT let that wrong keep us from loving. That's what we want from our Savior when He
forgive us, isn't it? We want Him to recognize we've sinned and choose to love
us even though we have sinned. We want
Him to love us even though we've wronged Him, even though we've chosen to
separate ourselves from Him in our sinning.
He is LIFE!
More tomorrow all by
the GRACE of our LORD and SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST!
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