People will always fail you. Get used to it. Sometimes they mean to, sometimes they don’t. There has been a long time in my life when I could not forgive. It’s hard to forgive, people hurt me, I wanted to give some (if not all or even more) of that pain back to them. But who does it hurt? It’s a vicious cycle. They hurt me, I hurt them, they hurt me back, and so on… It’s ugly. And you know who starts it all? God’s most attractive angel, satan (I refuse to capitalize his name). He finds a way to get to us all, he finds our deepest, darkest pain, and he plays on it, and before to long, it’s not deep any longer, it’s on the surface, and it’s in our face.
But when we forgive, whether it the pain inflicted on us is deliberate or not, it goes away. Jesus came down, He suffered for us. Why? Because He loved us so. Now, did He do anything bad? Did He sin? Nope, but He loved us, and He forgives us for what we do, and why shouldn’t we forgive? There is no reason. Pain will manifest upon itself. Don’t live with the pain, release it.
2 Corinthians 2:5-11
5If anyone has caused grief, he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you, to some extent—not to put it too severely. 6The punishment inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient for him. 7Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 8I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him. 9The reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything. 10If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, 11in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.
I guess I wrote this because I have been in a lot of pain lately. And I have been lucky because I can forgive, but my issue is that I can forgive, but I hold on to it because I feel like if someone did something mean to me, I must have caused them pain. And so I feel TERRIBLE!! Sometimes, I have to forgive myself, because that is the pain that really eats me up inside. Sometimes I have to choose to forgive others, and choose to forgive myself. If there is something you are holding on to, let it go, give it to God, His shoulders are never to small, His arm is never too short to reach out to you.
But when we forgive, whether it the pain inflicted on us is deliberate or not, it goes away. Jesus came down, He suffered for us. Why? Because He loved us so. Now, did He do anything bad? Did He sin? Nope, but He loved us, and He forgives us for what we do, and why shouldn’t we forgive? There is no reason. Pain will manifest upon itself. Don’t live with the pain, release it.
2 Corinthians 2:5-11
5If anyone has caused grief, he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you, to some extent—not to put it too severely. 6The punishment inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient for him. 7Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 8I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him. 9The reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything. 10If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, 11in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.
I guess I wrote this because I have been in a lot of pain lately. And I have been lucky because I can forgive, but my issue is that I can forgive, but I hold on to it because I feel like if someone did something mean to me, I must have caused them pain. And so I feel TERRIBLE!! Sometimes, I have to forgive myself, because that is the pain that really eats me up inside. Sometimes I have to choose to forgive others, and choose to forgive myself. If there is something you are holding on to, let it go, give it to God, His shoulders are never to small, His arm is never too short to reach out to you.
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