01/18/2024
We All Must Forgive! And Sometimes It’s the Hardest Thing to Do!!! There Are Many Things That God Himself Will Have to Help Walk You Through Forgiving! Trust me on that!!! Some things you won’t be able to forgive on your own! But let me help free someone and tell or remind you of what is NOT! 👇🏽
Forgiving is NOT Forgetting What Happened. It would be foolish to erase from mind some of the wrongs done to us. If we were to do that, we would never learn from our experiences and we would walk right back into the same or similar situations, only to face the same hurts and disappointments. However, what can eventually be forgotten are the raw emotions associated with the event. When we forgive, the bad memories and feelings Associated with that person & that event Gradually diminish. It’s a process.
Forgiving is NOT Condoning the Behavior. Once we understand this, we are in a position to forgive even the worst of things. To forgive is not saying, "What you did is okay." It is saying, "The consequences of your behavior belong to God, not to me." When we forgive, we transfer the person from our system of justice to God's. We are not to get revenge or play God. We are not judge & jury. Therefore, in forgiving, we transfer the debt from our ledger of accounts to God's, leaving all recompense in his hands.
Forgiveness is NOT Agreeing to Reconcile. Forgiveness is a necessary step toward reconciliation, but reconciliation is not necessarily the goal of forgiveness. In fact, there are some situations when reconciliation is not a good idea. It is silly, if not dangerous, to press for reconciliation when the other person is unrepentant, unchanging, or unwilling…
Forgiveness is Not restoring trust in the person that hurt you. Trust is Earned. It is something we give to those who deserve it. To blindly trust someone who has hurt us is naïve and irresponsible. If a person is a thief, it’s foolish to give them the key to your house. If he were a pe*****le, it would be ridiculous & irresponsible to ask him to watch your children. We can forgive people from the wrong they’ve done to us Without extending an open invitation for them to do it again…
