Be kind to one another, tenderhearted forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Oh, I almost forgot. Yesterday my husband and I had a teeth cleaning appointment. So, I gave my cards out to the new people working there. First, I gave my card out to Sylvia. Sylvia was Debbie's dental cleaning assistant. Then I gave a card to the front office lady I've seen before, Elizabeth. And I also gave my card to the new front office lady., Marie. And, hello to the new dentist Brian hired, Dr. Kevin Konstant. Thank you for accepting my cards guys! I pray you will be encouraged by my writings! See you in 6 months! Have a great day! Wow, well this is a rather sore, kinda close to home, subject going on. Yes, it is all those things. However, most importantly it is what needs to be told. According to God it's on the timeline of what needs to be told.
Apparently, there are some people out there reading this blog. And, they need to be reminded of what God wants them to do with whatever is going on today. And, lucky for me I'm the one that gets to be the empty vessel that God is going to use to spread his word!
I'm sorry, that is enough of a brain teaser for you guys. What I'm talking about is the one word that most people if not all people have a hard time dealing with. And, that my friend is forgiveness.
I know what you all must be thinking. But, someone called me a " Selfish *itch !" Or, " my wife doesn't respect me She told me to go 'f ' myself! Or, my husband doesn't love me he ???." You all know what I am getting at. People will do things or say things to you that one will find beyond difficult to forgive and probably most people think impossible to forgive!
I can't sugarcoat it. I can't say oh it's okay we can just... Folks, there really is no way around it. We just have to do it. We have to be forgiving! What? You guys think is easy for me to do? You're looking at someone who harbored pain for years. I was even unable to forgive this person in my heart. That's How Strong the bitterness was! I kept it bottled up inside me more than a year but thank God less than 10 years. It took words that I needed to hear from God that were delivered to me from my sister in Christ.
Do I feel better? You better believe it. Do I once in awhile rehash the pain. You better believe it. And you know why that is? Because the evil one knows I forgave the person and the evil one is going to keep reminding me of the wrong that was done to me. But, you know what all I have to do is open my mouth and be like I already forgave the person, get out of here Satan! I don't need to be reminded! In Jesus name get away from me Satan!
As mentioned earlier, a new pain has been born. However is it going to take me 10 years to forgive? No way! It's not even going to take me a year to forgive. Maybe a day. LOL, no sorry I'm not that quick yet to forgive. Let's start with a day
or may be a few weeks. :-).
That can be the goal, but not going to say it's going to happen.
Can you imagine if I didn't forgive right away? No thank you I don't want to go through days of inner pain in my heart, or days of ugliness circling around in my mind! Let me just stick to being appreciative of this person, loving of this person, respecting of this person.
Keep your minds filled with good thoughts of a person. We don't want to pollute our heart or our minds with negativity of a person. Do you want to end up harboring so much bitterness?
Let It Go. In the words of Elsa from the movie Frozen. Let It Go. When someone did bad stuff to Jesus what did he do? He let it go! When someone does bad stuff to us, what should we do? We should be forgiving and Let It Go.
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