Be a Great Forgiver
Are you a great forgiver?
We all have things we need to forgive and the majority of the time what
we need to forgive involves another individual in our life. One of the best examples of a Great Forgiver
was Jesus. As He hung on a cross and was
ridiculed by others He made this statement in Luke 23:34 “Father, forgive them,
for they do not know what they do.” How
many times do we carry a grudge against someone for something they said or did
to us years ago?
Being a great forgiver means we stop
waiting for someone to ask for forgiveness or make restitution. When we allow the people around us to direct
our path because we haven’t forgiven them then we have lost the battle. Jesus didn’t look up at God when he was
hanging from the cross and ask God to kill them all. That is something we would do if we were in
Jesus’ place. We often want revenge
instead of reconciliation. We want the
other person who hurt us to hurt too. The odd thing about it is most of the
time the person who hurt you is already hurting from something someone else did
to them or something that is going on in their life.
One of the most important things about
forgiveness is we can’t change the world if we are carrying around bitterness,
anger and hate. Letting go means
living.
Prayer for the Day: Heavenly Father, help me
to forgive and let go of the anger and bitterness that occurs when others hurt
me. I want to be more like Jesus, who
gave the ultimate sacrifice and still forgave those who hung Him on a cross. Jesus died for my sin and I should feel the
same compassion for others that Jesus felt for me when He died to save me.
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