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Mark 11:25
“And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your
Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
"But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive the
wrongs you have done." (Matthew 6:15)
(Luke 23:34). Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they
do
(Matthew 5:39;
“…That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to
him the other also.”
Colossians 3:13).
“Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel
against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye”
"He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he
must pass himself" (George Herbert).
Anyone can love those who are nice to him. Loving those who have
wronged him is a different matter. When we forgive, we forget
because REMEMBERED FORGIVENESS RE-INFECTS THE WOUND. We
should treat forgiveness as a cancelled note: tear it up and burn it.
RESENTMENT comes from two Latin words ("re" meaning back and
"sentire" meaning to feel). It is reliving or feeling previous emotions.
A wound must be thoroughly cleansed of resentment if it should
heal properly. In reality, resentment hurts the one who feels it.
We forgive others, not for what they are, but for what we are
(Christians). And we are not paragons of self-righteous mercy who
sit high and mighty on our thrones, charitably bestowing our
forgiveness upon those who have hurt us much as king grants
pardon to his lowly subjects.
Sometimes the hurt is so deep that all our rational powers will not-
CANNOT-call forth complete forgiveness. Oh, we may intellectually
forgive with the part which we can control; but sometimes the hurt
is so very deep that the conscious part of our minds simply cannot
penetrate the core of our beings – that part which reacts
instinctively instead of reasoning.
Quite often “reflective hurt” lies deep within not because someone
has wronged US but one of our loved ones. Forgiveness in such an
instance is a SUPREME TEST of our true Christianity. Although we
may forgive with our rational powers, the injured part of our beings,
down deep inside, simply will not surrender.
(Psalm 51:10). “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit
within me”
When we reach the nadir of our own ability and throw ourselves at
the feet of God for His mercy, realising that we are sinners just as
much as the one who has wronged us or our loved ones because WE
are unable to forgive, we CAN achieve previously unattainable
strength forgiveness in such an instance is a crowning achievement
of our Christianity.