Monday, February 13th, 2006
undeserved
when your hurt or offended sometimes you don’t feel like forgiving your friends.
you want them to approach you and feel sorry about what they did. and ask for your forgiveness. and in some respects, when you forgive them it’s not like your doing it out of your kindness. in a sense you wait for them to learn a lesson. feel guilty, struggle, and suffer. and after all that we forgive them because we feel like they have paid a price.
if somebody hurt you, sometimes don’t you just want to hold off forgiving them so you can make them feel bad? you want to gain something in return. we want something in return for the pain we felt; compensation. and because of this mindset the way we forgive others does not reflect God’s way. God forgave us, even when we didn’t deserve it.
forgiving the underserved.
that’s a powerful action. if somebody hurts you, and they don’t know it. would you approach them and tell them ‘your forgiven’, instead of holding a grudge…
We hurt God without knowing it most of the time, but He still turns around and forgives us unconditionally. Jesus died to forgive the undeserved. can we follow what He did?
if you’ve had a grudge, can you just drop it and forgive them? tell them, out of the blue, that ‘it’s ok’ that you just want to start ‘fresh’ – i’m sure if we could the world would be a different place.
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