Forgiveness

[LivingbyFaith]

11 minutes ago, Faithbuilders said:

One small change, I agree that even tho we forgive someone, depending on the situation does not mean we trust them full, right away..... BUT..... true forgiveness means that we are looking forward to a time when we CAN trust them again.... Trust takes time, but, over time if people show true repentance, we should trust them again! "Love takes no account of the wrong done to it."

What I meant to say (and I do agree with you) is;

Forgiveness brings us peace of mind and frees us from corrosive anger building up inside us, regardless of whether the other person actually deserves our forgiveness. If we have truly forgiven, we are able to be in the presence of the person who had hurt us and not feel anything but love towards them. "Love takes no account of the wrong done to it."

Trust on the other hand...(as you said), is something which depends on their willingness to repent (an apology and a genuine effort to change their ways).  To trust someone again, can take a long time as trust, once broken, is hard to be re-earned!  But if they are truly making changes and they are genuine about it, then trust can be gained back quicker - and this is what we hope for!

Some people though, don't want to repent, they don't believe they've done anything wrong, they don't apologize and even when you've forgiven them, they remain angry and bitter and "Untrustworthy!".  In this case, I'd rather stay away from them and pray for them from a distance.

Thanks Faithbuilders, God bless!

[frienduff thaylorde]

1 hour ago, LivingbyFaith said:

What I meant to say (and I do agree with you) is;

Forgiveness brings us peace of mind and frees us from corrosive anger building up inside us, regardless of whether the other person actually deserves our forgiveness. If we have truly forgiven, we are able to be in the presence of the person who had hurt us and not feel anything but love towards them. "Love takes no account of the wrong done to it."

Trust on the other hand...(as you said), is something which depends on their willingness to repent (an apology and a genuine effort to change their ways).  To trust someone again, can take a long time as trust, once broken, is hard to be re-earned!  But if they are truly making changes and they are genuine about it, then trust can be gained back quicker - and this is what we hope for!

Some people though, don't want to repent, they don't believe they've done anything wrong, they don't apologize and even when you've forgiven them, they remain angry and bitter and "Untrustworthy!".  In this case, I'd rather stay away from them and pray for them from a distance.

Thanks Faithbuilders, God bless!

When viewing forgiveness ,   let us always remember was our own forgiveness FROM GOD based on our deserving it ,  OR BASED SOLEY ON WHAT CHRIST DID FOR US .

Thus ,   our Faith is ,   IN THE ONE WHO DID SAVE .    We were not forgiven based on us , but based on WHAT CHRIST DID FOR US .

And if any man has not faith in Christ ,  then he is none of His .    Oh , let no one marvel .   For you are saved BY grace alone , kept by HE who has both saved us

and can keep us from falling .   OH , but if we heed not HIM , His SPIRIT ,   then who we are led by is where our destination ends .

Did we follow CHRIST to the end ,  or did we follow the flesh and its lusts and HEEDED not His instruction , BY HIS SPIRIT and HIS WORD .

Their is no greater example on HOW to live and walk , THAN CHRIST JESUS  .  And HIS WORDS and actions were soley OF the FATHER .

THUS if JESUS said if you forgive not others their trespasses against you , MY FATHER will not forgive you yours ,   BETTER TAKE IT AS GOD HIMSELF SAID IT .

OH ,  BUT HE DID .   We can reap the JOY of obeying HIM and have that abundant life now and even greater in the world to come

or we can wreck havoc and never know the abundant life now ,  AND HOW much worse in the destruction that comes at the end of all who believed not and followed not

THE LAMB.     ITS A WIN WIN to FOLLOW JESUS NOW , n this world and the one to come .  BUT its a lose , LOSE to heed not HE who speaks from heaven

now and how much worse at that end .   And it matters not how one grew rich and had it easy in this life , YET KNEW NOT CHRIST , theirend is destruction .

and no matter what a follower of CHRIST loses in this life and in this world ,   THAT one has far greater JOY NOW and IN THE WORLD TO COME EVERLASTING LIFE .

Sorros and many ,  have not the joy even now that one has in the loss of all things ,  HAVING CHRIST that one has the PEACE which comes FROM HIM .

And their ends are very different too .    The one who knew CHRIST , oh what rejoicing , the one who knew him not , OH what teeth gnashing and dire suffering .

YOU LOVED DEAR SISTER .   I believe you know this already .  OH BUT WHAT A JOY to POINT to JESUS and BE REMINDED of what we already know .

 

Edited November 9, 2018 by frienduff thaylorde