I COULDN’T BELIEVE WHAT MY FRIEND ASKED ME TO DO!!
Everyone likes to receive gift not unless you are quite unique, generally speaking we love to be on the receiving end.
THE GIFT
Who wants to unravel Today’s gift ? of cause we are unravelling is the gift of Forgiveness. This is one of those topics that is not so openly talked about, but I am persuaded that as long as you are living on earth you will experience some kind of offence or someone stepping on your toes betrayal or violating in some way.
Our human nature plays out and we do the most natural thing we often hold grudges, bitterness and hatred towards those that have offended us. In some instances you could understand why someone will have hardened their heart and are unwilling to forgive.
LIFE LESSONS
personal experience taught me a lot about myself during this time. I had allowed the unforgiveness to grow and birthed into intense bitterness towards those who had violated me.
I didn’t realise how much it had affected me, until I realised that it was really eating me up. I wasn’t eating and sleeping well of the pain I carried that for a very long time.
To cut a long story short a dear friend prayed with me but also asked me a question that never entered my imagination !!!! She asked if I could find it in my heart to pray for them. Initially I thought my friend had “lost a screw or 2 in the head” thought she was mad.
ACTION REQUIRED
Eventually and gradually after wrestling I did start praying for them, I tell you no lie it did not come naturally, in my mind they were not deserving of the gift of Forgiveness not after what they did to me.
If anything they needed a double for my pain the inflicted on me. The human fleshly side of me was definitely at work then.
Sorry just keeping it real, that’s how I felt at the time. Eventually I was able to pray for them and that was just the beginning of the journey unravelling the gift of forgiveness. I was able to forgive them and let go, but I reminded myself that in as much as I forgave them it was more for me.
FREEDOM
The feeling was good felt light and free and now have adopted a different approach and that’s to not let things fester on for too long.
I just deal with it there and then and try to move on and live as peaceful as I can …I think I’m generally a calm person by nature. .hmm just saying)
Sometimes we lay this box hidden because we don’t want to confront past hurt or relive the experiences and that’s understandable but until we get to a place where we decide to let go and be free the box will remain part of you and even though you don’t physically carry it around everywhere it goes with you.
Acknowledging and appreciating that our induvial experiences, pain, hurt is very different and we cannot down play each other’s experiences so we need to remember that.
HOPE
This post I hope has encouraged you in some way and has had some positive insight that might help you on your journey to forgive.
Choose to give the Gift of Forgiveness today or you may be the one receiving forgiveness… be thankful in all things *
*Colossians 3:13
“Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
I hope you find the strength to Forgive and Receive Forgiveness
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