| Consequences Of Sin And Forgiveness: Lesson 15: Command to Forgive: 01/13/2014 by turtle Matthew 6:12-15 KJV (12) And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. (13) And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. (14) For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: (15) But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Dealing with one’s on inability to forgive someone or ones self can be a challenge. Rape victims go through several stages to ever be able to forgive. Families that lose their family member through violent crimes go through similar stages. The ability to not take revenge is probably even more hard for a nation to forgive the enemy of injuries due to war as will as loss of life. To think one can go into a country, destroy and then make repairs is going to fix everything is insane. It takes years and years to heal another country from war and our own nation hands what was our enemy weapons. It matters not if a war is justified because of human rights, so one in a war torn country will be angry at the nation that did it. As Israelis mourn the lost of their Prime Minister Sharon one has to ask will the fight for peace continue and the work towards peace stand or will hate and unforgiveness of difference in religion try to end this fight for peace. Learning to forgive and the ability to forgive takes love on all sides. Peace is not easily achieved through negotiations because it must come from heart. Christians forgiving and learning to forgive as God did all people takes practice. It is something not easily done. The ability to forgive sometimes takes counseling, but always takes an act of examming oneself and seeing their own mistakes. Examming one’ s own mistakes helps to see the world and other’s mistakes are worth forgiving. Yet it harder of violent crimes because the one injured has nothing to compare it with as far as guilt. Our ability to receive the effects in our world as the effects of past sin of our nation is even harder. God says forgive. Forgive or He will not forgive you. Strong words and some hear and say I can not and will not ever forgive. And some do go to their grave never able to forgive completely. To forgive takes an act of God in some cases. If all you do is seek revenge then all you have is revenge and no forgiveness. Forgiveness must come from heart, must come from the help of the Lord. Jesus praying to God said help us to forgive those who sin against us as you forgive us. Israel was coming through a time of grief of Roman take over as well as Assyrian, Persia and Babylonia exile. Israel would need to learn to forgive the same as God was doing for all the world that would believe in Christ. Now if we write done all our sins and compare it to what we ourselves have done, it makes it easier to forgive others, for that list will grow shorter and shorter. However acts of violence are often not comparable individual mistakes. That is where act of God comes in. Act of God giving the ability to forgive because you already took the time to forgive others in areas of things you already done yourself. Now that step one. Step two is to look at your unworthiness of forgiveness and say all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Do not worry about what you can not forgive right away, God is able to in his forgiveness to supercede all that and make away for you to forgive if you will only believe. God not going to promise a mansion in heaven, without the ability to provide the ability to forgive. It never means punishment does not come to a sinner. It means sin is forgiven. See the most violent act of that day and time was done to God’s Son, and yet we all nailed him to the cross with our sin. So if God can forgive the violent act done to His Son, then we ought to be able to forgive others that same way. However we are human and it takes time to fully grasp what our sins cause. Dear Heavenly Father help us to forgive those who harm us, despite our inability, remembering the violent act toward your Son for our sins. In Jesus precious name, Amen. http://www.turtle30cshell.com _ |
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