Sorry VS 70 x 7
There's a big difference between living in apologies and living in forgiveness…
Living an apology is a rather selfish cycle
While living in forgiveness reaches outward,
Pardoning the people and the actions that have done you wrong…including yourself
Apologies see salvation as a daily ritual…
Reenacting the same sorries for the same sins
Forgiveness is an embodiment much deeper than a verbal "sorry"…
It's taking steps in the right direction…
Moving forward, without rewinding and replaying the same guilt…it's taking action
An apology is an easy road…most often a copout…
Audibly convincing, but far from being truly sincere
Forgiveness is a commitment…something accepted…
Welcomed with teary eyes and open arms…embraced…held tightly…
Enduring much pain…attacked by doubt…
The entrance to the road of redemption…so straight and so narrow
Accepting an apology from someone or saying sorry to someone else are such common events…
But, when you say sorry, does the person you wronged really let it go?
When someone says sorry to you, and you shrug it off and tell them it's alright…is it really?
Or is it just a meaningless head nod?
Is it a smile to mask a grudge??
Is it resentment with a civil front???
Do you really let it go?!
Forgiveness releases…lets go…takes the weight off your shoulders…
It's sincerity beyond words…acted upon…
It's not letting vengeance have a hold on you…
It's trusting God to take care of you
It's pardoning another for whatever it was they did to you…
Not just 7 times, but 70 x 7 times
Forgiveness turns the other cheek…
Goes the extra mile…it's giving the clothes off your back
Forgiveness puts full trust in God's justice to reach others with Love and Mercy…
It kills with kindness…it opens the door to living redeemed!
It brings inner peace…
It doesn't let the devil control your life through others and what they do to you…
Brings happiness and contentment…shows the way to the Cross…
Nothing feels more freeing than forgiveness…
It removes the effects of what others may have caused in your life
It's joyous and mighty!
It breaks the chains…breaks the cycle…
Forgiveness demolishes the history that's trying to repeat itself in your life…
Forgiveness is truly living…so truly forgive others and truly forgive yourself
Don't just say sorry or lie to others by just saying it's okay…make it okay!
Because Jesus died for me and you to live forgiven and to forgive others…
He even said, "Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do"…
As you and I nailed Him to the Cross!
Jesus rose to Life for us to live forgiven…for us to live redeemed…
We have to become that FORGIVENESS through our actions…not just our words…
To live in that place…to live redeemed!
To live in confidence…without fear and doubt…
To live in full trust of the Lord!
We are in His hands…no matter what anyone does to us…He is the fair Judge
He'll make it right in our lives…
He wants everyone (in full knowledge of the hell they've been through)
To know that He is the quintessence of perfect Love and merciful forgiveness…
Because everyone has their reasons…we're all human…no one's perfect…no one is without sin…
We all need forgiveness…No one can be tagged as the enemy…
Only God knows who the enemy is, and He sorts that all out, in the end…
In the meantime; what He wants us to do is live in Love and mercy…
He wants us to be the archetypes of forgiveness…
To stand up victoriously over all the sin that can no longer keep its death-grip on us…
So be alive!
Be triumphant! Be confident! Be thankful!
We are FORGIVEN!!!
So, let's truly live that way…
Let's put an end to the day to day crutch of apology…it's crippling and gets us nowhere
Jesus has forgiven us!
So let's forgive ourselves and move forward from any guilt that satan wants to recycle in our lives
Most of all…
Let's understand others and be compassionate toward what they're going through, even when their knives stab our backs…
It's like turning the other cheek…
Let's always truly Forgive!
written by me 8/16/08