Forgiving One Another.

 

Forgiveness is a topic that is a hard one to talk about. It is hard, because when you talk to others about forgiveness, they do not want to hear about it or they dismiss it. 

So recently, I was in a situation where I had a falling out with someone close to me. 

Now, I could see where the person was wrong in the situation and I complained, yes I did complain, about what had happened and the things this person was saying. 

But as I sat down to write this blog a few weeks ago, God had to show me somethings.

He took me to Matthew 18:21-35

In this scripture, Paul asked Jesus a simple question. 

“Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.” (Matthew 18: 21 & 22)

 Jesus goes on and speaks a parable. 

(Now growing up I was taught that a parable was simply an earthy story with a heavenly. meaning. So it was something to learn in his story. )

He goes on to tell the story of the servant who owed the king 10 thousand talents, which was a lot of money back in those days.  

The king was going to sell off the servant, his wife and his children an all he had just to pay off his debt. The servant begged for forgiveness and pleaded with the king. The king had compassion and erased his debt.

But the servant went and saw someone who owed him money and asked for his money. the fellow servant begged for time to pay, but that servant did not want to hear it. So he had the person who owed him money throned in jail. 

Now when the King heard this he was upset because he had forgave the servant but the servant could not forgive the person who owed him. In the end the king send him to be tortures until he could pay his debt. 

God showed me myself when I read this scripture. 

Why is it so hard for us   to forgive someone who does us wrong, but we cannot forgive people who do us wrong.?

We expect that person to forgive us for whatever we did, but we do not want to do the same when people do us wrong. 

We need to learn that forgiveness is key in our lives. Just as God has forgiven us time and time again when we do wrong in our lives, we must learn to forgive others the same way. 

That does not mean we have to keep that individual close to us in our lives, but it means that we can forgive them and move on with our lives. 

I thank God for his grace and mercy, because in that moment I did not want to see where I was wrong, but God showed me where I was wrong in the situation.

In Matthew 6: 14 & 15 it says

“For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”

It’s simple. God has forgiven us time and time again for the sins that we have committed in our lives. 

But I thank God that he showed me that because he forgave me for the things I have done in my life, I have to learn to forgive people the same way. 

God bless. 

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