mickiel Posted May 10, 2015 Group: Seeker Followers: 1 Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 18 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 16 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/10/2015 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/01/1955 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estrella Posted May 10, 2015 Group: Senior Member Followers: 25 Topic Count: 33 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 813 Content Per Day: 0.24 Reputation: 1,002 Days Won: 1 Joined: 03/11/2015 Status: Offline Share Posted May 10, 2015 Ohhh johnnn.. Hmmm..if that ever happened to me, i would have murdered him. Really. Forget bout forgiving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willa Posted May 10, 2015 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 68 Topic Count: 186 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 14,242 Content Per Day: 3.33 Reputation: 16,657 Days Won: 30 Joined: 08/14/2012 Status: Offline Share Posted May 10, 2015 Concerning forgiving oneself. One day God asked me who I thought I was that I considered my judgements superior to His!!!! He had declaired me forgiven. My sins were as far as the east is from the west. So who am I to continue to condemn myself as though I were a higher court? This shut me up. No more self condemnation. Then He showed me that in my case the self condemnation had its root in self righteousness! I expected myself to be better. I considered myself to be a basicly good person. So God showed me that only God is good, and that my heart is desperately wicked. I am a sinner saved by God's grace--unmerited favor. Some of the hardest to forgive have been those involving deceit and rejection of friends and relatives. The people closest to me hurt the worst. But then I remember our Lord, and that He went through the same things. He was rejected and betrayed by His closest friends. So I identified with His suffering and it made me feel closer to Him. We share the same type of scars of grief, hurt and loss. He understands mine, but I also understand His. He loves and forgives. His life in me does the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onesettime 12 Posted May 10, 2015 Group: Members Followers: 4 Topic Count: 14 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 42 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 58 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/16/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted May 10, 2015 The hardest thing I find to frgive. Is drunk drivers. I have lost a good famil friend and his family to a drunk driver. But thru the grace ofGod I can do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted May 10, 2015 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 597 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,124 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,852 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted May 10, 2015 The hardest thing I find to frgive. Is drunk drivers. I have lost a good famil friend and his family to a drunk driver. But thru the grace ofGod I can do this. some of us here hate spiders.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted May 10, 2015 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,991 Topics Per Day: 0.48 Content Count: 48,689 Content Per Day: 11.81 Reputation: 30,343 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted May 10, 2015 Some things are harder to forgive than others.The amount of hurt or abuse involved.If a person does not apologize it is much more difficult to forgive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdemoss Posted May 10, 2015 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 59 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 4,402 Content Per Day: 0.99 Reputation: 2,154 Days Won: 28 Joined: 02/10/2012 Status: Offline Birthday: 04/26/1971 Share Posted May 10, 2015 All throughout the bible there is an ongoing story about the most difficult thing for God to forgive which seems to me to be infidelity. He was worthy of being God yet his people always turned to others. In his fierce wrath he nearly consumed them and at one point wrote a bill of divorce. When someones actions judge you unworthy of your place as husband or wife it is pretty unbearable. Jesus came into his own and his own would not receive him. He asked the father to forgive them. When preparing my confession I was encouraged to make a list of people I held resentments against followed by what they had done and how it affected me. God was at the top of my list. For my Creator is absolutely responsible for everything that has ever happened to me in my life. God is Almighty. He allowed it all. He did not prevent any of the evil that happened to me. Of course one would defend God by reason of God being righteous perfect and holy blah blah blah but the truth is that I was given the ability to judge God as a sinner and crucify him unto myself once. Forgiving God for my perception of his 'sin' against me was more difficult than anything else I have faced in life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphaparticle Posted May 10, 2015 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 48 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,363 Content Per Day: 0.35 Reputation: 403 Days Won: 5 Joined: 08/01/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted May 10, 2015 Do you struggle with forgiving someone something? Personally no I don't..... and it's probably because I have needed to be forgiven for a short time in my life of things I don't even want to think about.... short term stupidity and knowing you have been forgiven by both God and others for many things during that year or so makes it very hard not to forgive when people really do ask for forgiveness. If my wife was unfaithful it would be impossible to forgive unless God himself did something...... and being a reason for divorce, that's one thing that I'm not sure he asks us to forgive... I don't think forgiving means having to remain married. We are commanded to forgive others aren't we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphaparticle Posted May 10, 2015 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 48 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,363 Content Per Day: 0.35 Reputation: 403 Days Won: 5 Joined: 08/01/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted May 10, 2015 A woman, whose name escapes me now, suffered through a Nazi concentration camp as a child, lost most of her family including her brother who she was closest to... spoke of later life when her husband announced he was leaving her for another woman. She said her husband hurt her more than the other losses she survived. I find this interesting but strange. Obviously she has a right to her reactions that way, but I am absolutely certain the loss of a child (for instance, God forbid) would be orders of magnitude more painful than the infidelity of a spouse for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted May 10, 2015 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,991 Topics Per Day: 0.48 Content Count: 48,689 Content Per Day: 11.81 Reputation: 30,343 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted May 10, 2015 A woman, whose name escapes me now, suffered through a Nazi concentration camp as a child, lost most of her family including her brother who she was closest to... spoke of later life when her husband announced he was leaving her for another woman. She said her husband hurt her more than the other losses she survived. I find this interesting but strange. Obviously she has a right to her reactions that way, but I am absolutely certain the loss of a child (for instance, God forbid) would be orders of magnitude more painful than the infidelity of a spouse for me. We all hurt in different ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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