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Lord,
How Often Should I Forgive Someone
Who Sins Against Me?
Here is the million dollar question, “Who are you unwilling to forgive?”
Scripture
21 Then Peter came to him and asked, “Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times?”
22 “No, not seven times,” Jesus replied, “but seventy times seven!
Observation
Nothing is more destructive. It is the worst kind of
cancer. It robs a person’s joy. It enslaves them. It affects and messes up
every other relationship in their life. What is it? It is un-forgiveness!
Un-Forgiveness! It is Satan’s tool to keep you from being
all that God intended for you to be!
I see it all the time!
Christians unwilling to forgive other believers!
Sometimes it is an unforgiving wife or an unforgiving
husband, or both! Sometimes it is someone that has hurt us verbally and has
slandered us. It could have been a business partner or an employee who did not
protect the company.
I hear people sometimes say, “I have forgiven so and so”,
but they continue to hold on to resentment and they are still not able to say
one nice thing about the person who has hurt them. Even though they say they
have forgiven the person … they really have not! They refuse to reconcile with
the person even though the other person desperately wants the relationship to
be restored. Hearts of stone! Knuckleheads! Stupid! It is so stupid and so unlike
God … so unlike our Heavenly Father. And it is so sad.
We must keep on forgiving that person every time Satan
brings that hurt or hurts back to our mind - Seventy times seven!
My Dad did a lot to hurt our family. He divorced my Mom
and then later married a girl that was about my age. The divorce was ugly and
my Dad walked away with everything. My Mom was left with pretty much nothing.
All the land and properties that he had inherited from his parents and from my
great uncle they all went to his new family.
Even today when I
think about my Dad I begin to feel resentment building up in my heart. I have
to keep forgiving even though he is dead and has been dead for a long time I
must keep forgiving him.
If you and I don’t keep on forgiving … the resentment
will destroy us! Even a dead person can control us if you and I don’t
continually practice unconditional forgiveness.
Here is the million dollar question, “Who are you
unwilling to completely forgive?”
Application
I
will continue to try to help people see the importance of unconditional
forgiveness.
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, un-forgiveness, resentment, retaliation and revenge are some of Satan’s
most used tools to render us ineffective. Help me not to hold grudges. Help me
to forgive each and every time that someone hurts me and/or my family. Give me
Your heart for the people around me.
Daily Bible Reading:
1 Chronicles 14,15; Psalm 132; Matthew 18
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