when an injustice is done), or it will be incomplete. Ask God to bring
painful memories to the surface.
This way He can begin to heal those hurt emotions, repair the damage.
against him/her anymore...
with the person who has hurt us, perhaps so they feel as bad as we do.
We are to forgive ~as the Lord has forgiven us~. Our forgiving
for us will possibly be one of the hardest things
we ever do. A word used often is ~costly~. You hear about how
it cost God His only Son to die; and, so forgiving from the heart will cost us,
if we imitate the cross, and the purpose for God to do that act of His love for us.
But, realize that the forgiveness from God was full and final,
and so must our forgiveness be final.
Let go of the past, and do not think in any way of taking revenge.
Without allowing yourself to be abused by others, take a stand
against sin, but exercise grace and forgiveness towards the person.
God does not tolerate sin, and you should not also.
and to release the other person must be immediate, not when we feel we are ready.
If we continue to hold the sin of another against that person, punishing
him/her daily, until we feel we have extracted enough out of them as they
suffer, to "repay" what they did, and satisfy the debt we have
created, by our punishment through actions, attitudes, and words, we are not
forgiving as God has. Our forgiveness becomes conditional on our
feeling better, and our self satisfaction that we have "shown them, and
reminded daily, what they did"~ a kind of repayment until we feel we got enough.
Forgiving is not about repayment. It is about sacrificing what might make us
feel better, by getting something back or out of them, to forgive
as God commands us~to free the other, no longer enslaved to us by
reminders~with a full and final, immediate forgiveness. Through this
action, we can see so clearly in this process, how we have
recieved our own forgiveness from God, and perhaps from others to whom we have sinned.
If you wait til you "feel better about it", you may not ever forgive.
Make the hard choice to do it, and Satan will lose power over you in that area,
and then God will heal your damaged emotions.
Freedom you will gain right now, and the healing will follow.
Perhaps the info in the Sept article of the missionhands newsletter
and Your kindness has led me to repent of my sins.
I have not shown the same patience toward those who
have hurt me. I have held onto my anger, bitterness, resentment
towards them.Please bring to mind and help me make my list
of all that I need to forgive, so I may do it now, as you
require me to do...amen
This is causing them to serve time, as it was, for the injustice.
The truth shown in the resurrection gives us a new perspective
of the cross. The empty tomb shows very clearly Jesus was a person
like none other, sent to die a death like no other.
And the meaning of the cross is not so much how He died, but why He died-
His death was a sacrifice. Isaiah 53: 4.
He bore our brokenness.
Jesus did not die before or with His people, but for them, as a
payemt for the guilt of us and others, for our sins,
bearing the brokenness of us and others. Isaiah 53: 4-5
God's justice meant He could not give our sins a pass over.
Sins needed to be dealt with.
God's grace necessitated He Himself to be the solution, in sending
the Son of God, made man,so He could take our sins on Himself-
a full payemnt, meeting all the demands of Holy justice..
..and the demands of God's holy nature were totally satisfied
in the cross. The transaction was made complete, with the resurrection.
Isaiah 53: 6
see also...
Isaiah 53: 10, 12
Opening page
~Forgiveness~
