Forgiveness
“When deep injury is done to us. We never recover until we forgive. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” - These are Mary Karen Read’s last words in her journal before her death at the Virginia tech shooting. Forgiveness is the most mysterious gift of God’s. Many of us have been hurt deeply at some point in our lives. What we do with that hurt is critical. If we hold on to it it will turn to bitterness. If we ask God to help us forgive the offender it can lead to freedom and life. It takes great courage to forgive a person that has offended us. Please take some time to process past hurts with God, asking that He would allow you to forgive the offender even before to talk with them. Colossians 3:12-17 has helped many people on this journey to forgiveness. Please take a look at the follow passage, please key in on verse 13.
Colossians 3:12-17
12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Forgive each other as the Lord has forgiven you. WOW!
In the book TrueFaced we find these words. “Where does God stand in relation to the sin done against us when we live in The Room of Grace? He stands with us. He has his arm around us, giving us His perspective on the sin and the one who sinned. He’s close enough for us to hear Him say, ‘If you ask - and I hope you do - you should forgive this person as my Son forgave you. Trust me with this advice, and I’ll heal you, restore you and free you with the truth it brings you.’” Please checkout the videos below. God’s gift of forgiveness is so very powerful and freeing. Trust God with this one.
Within a Family
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