October 17, 2010

  • Forgiveness is not for the weak

        This last 12+ months has been a challenge in the area of forgiveness on many fronts. It has been a challenge to love people much less trust them. Yet, the only reason I have the ability to forgive is by the example in ways of how God forgives me in my life. Nobody is perfect!!! One can appear "good" to many but there is still a thought life that is bare before God for Him to see our motives in our hearts.  He has a higher degree of looking into our lives than humans.

         I want this blog to be encouraging so I don't want to list things that have gone on due to I don't want to dwell on the negative. Besides, dwelling on it in my mind, talking or writing about it just gives it more room in my life. Life is too short to be negative. Trust me, it has been a challenge to what I have talked about living during my lifetime and to actually do it. Focussing on the negative can be miserable to me and those that have to be around me for whatever the reason at times.  Yet, it does not mean I will not share at times in the future to share a lesson I'm learning. Learning is continual. I find out at times, I have to repeat a lessons in life over the years to due it appears like I forget them at times. Wait!!! I'm too young for senilty onset!!!

         Yet, I have learned many lessons from what has happened like I have learned in my past. For example, the Holy Bible in the Old and New Testament gives us plenty examples of people messing up but moving on. The beauty of forgiveness rings out over and over. In their mistakes it can teach us so much! I prefer to learn from others mistakes due to it is less painful that way verses making them yourself. Yet, sometimes it takes us making them to really learn the lesson and burn it into to us to really learn it to apply it for the future.

         Lifetime on earth is short compared to all eternity! Yes, many believe all we have is this life without eternity. So, if one believes that then how we live is that much more important. 

         Yes, I have my moments or hours or maybe a day or so that I may struggle in living with forgiveness of things that have gone on. Praise the Lord I can push back into living a life with forgiveness it in. When you forgive people for doing interesting things to you, it sorta freaks them out, too. Some just don't know what to do if you are not going to get even with them. Or, they can consider you weak.  If they consider one weak for forgiving, they don't understand the strength it takes do it and stay in it without reacting negative back. It is a challenge.  Stength comes from the Lord. Yet, it is my choice whether I depend on my strength or seek the Lord.  It is a constant choice due to our thought life can become actions before we realize it. There is such a battle in our mind at times. Romans 12 is one of my favorite chapters with such a challenge.