My Journey with forgiveness
Forgiveness can be one of the most difficult things to achieve in our hearts and to process depending on what happened to us and the level of pain or damage it has been felt or done, it can almost feel impossible to achieve it sometimes, especially right at the beginning when the hurt, damage and offense are still being digested in our emotional and spiritual system and sometimes even physical world.
What the Lord has shown me is that, It takes a lot of wisdom and meditation in him to be able to truly unlock it in our hearts and heal from it.. Many times most people are not being able to let it go because they have a different perspective on what it truly means. Usually they think that in order to let it go equals going back to the offender or justifying and approve what have been done, which is not true. The truth needs to be known in this situation in order to be truly set free.
(John 8:32) - “and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
The layers in our emotional and spiritual system
Unforgiveness can also include layers of other roots deep down in our system that are also in need of healing. The emotional world can be very complex and such a deep rabbit hole.. It's such a painful subject if not one of the most painful to process. As humans, God created us in his image, he programmed our system in his image and to process things IN HIS IMAGE, unless there's particular cases of empty vessels of satan who have the moral and emotional system backwards to what God has designed it to be, but that will be another subject for another day.
(Isaiah 5:20-21) - Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!
One of the things that God has shown me is that even with trauma, It's an alarming sign in our nature that an offense against God's image have been done. Even in our sinful nature and in a corrupt world, there's an essence in us, the finger print of God our creator that nothing or no one can touch and our bodies cannot help it but to react against such offense and alert us that God's spiritual laws have been broken, It is apart of nature to react, process and feel pain from such offenses, nothing to be embarrassed about. God allows it and it is healthy for us to react, feel it, be angry, and he also cares about what have been done to us since we were created to be loved and to share love to others, but it is also our responsibility on what we are going to do with this emotions and how we are going to process them.
(Ephesians 4:26-32) - '' Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil. Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. ''
Who are we to refuse forgiveness to others?
As we all know, God is forgiving and merciful, he forgives us as we go to him in genuine repentance and throws our wicked sinful deeds in the sea of forgiveness while he is the only one in his perfection, glory and power to have all to right to punish and condemn us.. This is also something helpful to reflect on when struggling with unforgiveness. Because we are weak in our nature, we quickly tend forget about this facts, what this concludes is that we are no one to refuse unforgiveness to others when God himself forgave us of our sinful deeds, we don't deserve it, but the unconditional love of God and Jesus sacrifice on the cross saved us from what we truly deserved, What a God to be praised Hallelujah!
(Romans 5:8) - But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
When we open ourselves to forgiveness and tell him that we forgive those who have wronged us, it is a big step that he already justifies, it already means that forgiveness is on the move, he is still interested in walking on a growth journey with us about the subject, the more we allow this journey to take place the more freedom we will experience.
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