The Responsibility To Forgive (1)
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- The Responsibility To Forgive (1)
"And be ye kind one of another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you"
(Ephesians 4:32)
Apart from the fact that your calling as a child of God-a forgiving God-demands you show the same attitude of forgiveness, the entire facet of success in life still has a hinge on forgiveness.
The memoir of Job shows us how. Throughout the sufferings of Job, his three friends always thought they were defending God whenever they stroked Job with their whip-like words after he tried to justify his uprightness, even to an extent that it seemed as though their strokes exceeded their sympathy. After all was said and done, God instructed his friends to apologize to Job, yet the baton of the whole scene rested on Job: that is, on his forgiving them.
Note, Job had been forgiven by God for complaining almost all through his trials, yet tested him to see if he could reciprocate the same, which it is recorded he did, and afterwards received a double-fold blessing.
In the same vein, our outcomes and blessings will always depend on our daily choices such as issues that require our doing to others as Christ did to us, whom even when surrounded by the vehement oozing of hatred still prayed 'forgive them for they know not what they do'.
To be sincere, once the understanding of what God has done for you comes fully upon you, doing the same to others would be a delightful task.
Hence, note that for every time you live out how God would have acted in any given circumstance, you receive a part of Him to yourself, at least that's what we call a blessing. Thus, to stay blessed, keep acting as He desires....keep forgiving!
- The Responsibility To Forgive (1)
"And be ye kind one of another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you"
(Ephesians 4:32)
Apart from the fact that your calling as a child of God-a forgiving God-demands you show the same attitude of forgiveness, the entire facet of success in life still has a hinge on forgiveness.
The memoir of Job shows us how. Throughout the sufferings of Job, his three friends always thought they were defending God whenever they stroked Job with their whip-like words after he tried to justify his uprightness, even to an extent that it seemed as though their strokes exceeded their sympathy. After all was said and done, God instructed his friends to apologize to Job, yet the baton of the whole scene rested on Job: that is, on his forgiving them.
Note, Job had been forgiven by God for complaining almost all through his trials, yet tested him to see if he could reciprocate the same, which it is recorded he did, and afterwards received a double-fold blessing.
In the same vein, our outcomes and blessings will always depend on our daily choices such as issues that require our doing to others as Christ did to us, whom even when surrounded by the vehement oozing of hatred still prayed 'forgive them for they know not what they do'.
To be sincere, once the understanding of what God has done for you comes fully upon you, doing the same to others would be a delightful task.
Hence, note that for every time you live out how God would have acted in any given circumstance, you receive a part of Him to yourself, at least that's what we call a blessing. Thus, to stay blessed, keep acting as He desires....keep forgiving!
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