A LOOK AT TRUE FORGIVENESS
Greetings in the name of Jesus:
This is a subject that many people have discussed, but very few have actually be able to implement in life. It is one of those subjects that never goes deeply enough to really understand. In principal I believe most people know what it is...they just don't know how to do it.
We basically know forgiveness through stories we have heard about it instead of experiencing what it means for our own life. This includes such things as arguments with our spouse, sins we have done in secret, or some kind of abuse we have either done to someone else or had done to us..or life events such as death, relationships or heartaches.
The question can be asked "why do we have such a hard time forgiving? I think we need to look at the real meaning of forgiving. It means to pardon; to cease to bear resentment against; to cancel{as in debt} or to exercises clemency. Still there are not many of those definitions that are very close to what God's definition of forgiveness is. In God's mind there is a second step in true forgiveness that must be a part of forgiveness or nothing really works...and that is to forget as well. This is to fling as far away as the East is from the West...now that is true forgiveness. A good man can forgive a sin against him, but a Godly man must also forget that sin ever was, but how many of us have remembered the sin when it comes to getting into a new argument? I wonder what would happen to us if God forgave us in the ways we forgive others?
Why is it so hard to forget? It is one of the accusations that the enemy uses against us constantly...the memory of our own sin is constant in our minds accusing us and tormenting us. The key then is to allow God to take away that accusation by letting our own sin go in Christ. We can ask forgiveness, but unless we have also prayed for God to wipe our minds clean of it's memory we will continue to carry that memory with us and thus carry the sin as well. It will do us no good to be constantly forgiven of something if we pick the memory of it back up and carry it away from the foot of the cross with us.
Inmost ways we would like to think of this physical world being more real than the spiritual world, but in truth the spiritual realm is much more powerful than any physical thing created. I have many dear brothers and sisters in Christ who struggle with this problem because we know so little spiritual realm out of a personal choice...but we were designed to discern in both realms. As Paul said we fight not against the physical things of this world , but of spiritual things; principalities and powers that rule in heavenly places, in { spiritual places}. It will be our understanding of these spiritual things that will set us free from the depression and the torment of the enemy. In the same way that we pray...we can pray, but unless the Holy Spirit guides our prayer we will not know what it is we should pray for. We can teach, but unless we teach through the understanding of the Hly Spirit we become like the blind leading the blind. We can preach, but unless we proclaim answers to the problems of life that we face daily and in this age it will be like good seed that is cast out on rocky soil. Today there is an out pouring of the Holy Spirit for the church if we take the time to cultivate it. It is the same power that shook the buildings and rooms that the elect prayed in, and we have been promised even greater things, but this must be sought after and desired above all else . God will not fail us...the question is will we continue to fail Him? May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
This is a subject that many people have discussed, but very few have actually be able to implement in life. It is one of those subjects that never goes deeply enough to really understand. In principal I believe most people know what it is...they just don't know how to do it.
We basically know forgiveness through stories we have heard about it instead of experiencing what it means for our own life. This includes such things as arguments with our spouse, sins we have done in secret, or some kind of abuse we have either done to someone else or had done to us..or life events such as death, relationships or heartaches.
The question can be asked "why do we have such a hard time forgiving? I think we need to look at the real meaning of forgiving. It means to pardon; to cease to bear resentment against; to cancel{as in debt} or to exercises clemency. Still there are not many of those definitions that are very close to what God's definition of forgiveness is. In God's mind there is a second step in true forgiveness that must be a part of forgiveness or nothing really works...and that is to forget as well. This is to fling as far away as the East is from the West...now that is true forgiveness. A good man can forgive a sin against him, but a Godly man must also forget that sin ever was, but how many of us have remembered the sin when it comes to getting into a new argument? I wonder what would happen to us if God forgave us in the ways we forgive others?
Why is it so hard to forget? It is one of the accusations that the enemy uses against us constantly...the memory of our own sin is constant in our minds accusing us and tormenting us. The key then is to allow God to take away that accusation by letting our own sin go in Christ. We can ask forgiveness, but unless we have also prayed for God to wipe our minds clean of it's memory we will continue to carry that memory with us and thus carry the sin as well. It will do us no good to be constantly forgiven of something if we pick the memory of it back up and carry it away from the foot of the cross with us.
Inmost ways we would like to think of this physical world being more real than the spiritual world, but in truth the spiritual realm is much more powerful than any physical thing created. I have many dear brothers and sisters in Christ who struggle with this problem because we know so little spiritual realm out of a personal choice...but we were designed to discern in both realms. As Paul said we fight not against the physical things of this world , but of spiritual things; principalities and powers that rule in heavenly places, in { spiritual places}. It will be our understanding of these spiritual things that will set us free from the depression and the torment of the enemy. In the same way that we pray...we can pray, but unless the Holy Spirit guides our prayer we will not know what it is we should pray for. We can teach, but unless we teach through the understanding of the Hly Spirit we become like the blind leading the blind. We can preach, but unless we proclaim answers to the problems of life that we face daily and in this age it will be like good seed that is cast out on rocky soil. Today there is an out pouring of the Holy Spirit for the church if we take the time to cultivate it. It is the same power that shook the buildings and rooms that the elect prayed in, and we have been promised even greater things, but this must be sought after and desired above all else . God will not fail us...the question is will we continue to fail Him? May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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