Forgiveness
Consider if you will:
Unforgiveness can only exist if you are getting some kind of a payoff/benefit from it. The payoff isn't always obvious, but the cost of the unforgiveness makes worth it, whatever amount of energy spent on identifying the payoff.
Keeping the payoff is always easier as you have lived with it (typically) for some time. Letting it go requires great humility and a willingness to look for it. God will help you, but, YOU must be willing to consider YOU are the one 100% responsible for the unforgivenss. You are the ONLY reason there is unforgiveness. No one can make you forgive or not forgive. It is all yours.
You are ALWAYS committed to something in everything you do, so, when you have unforgiveness, ask yourself "I am more committed to forgiveness, or am I more committed to the payoff I get from the being the wronged one?" So from this you can see the importance of spending the time to identify what the payoff has been.
Unforgivenss and forgiveness are exclusively your responsibility. So when you have either it is always 100% because that is what you are committed to.
Jesus had every opportunity to explore how he was being and had been, wronged. But His commitment to obedience and forgiveness, was greater than His commitment to his wounds taken. He did not have a change of heart in the middle of the torture.
Whenever it seems "so hard", "too hard", that is a much easier route to take then to let go of the payoff. But consider always what the cost is when your commitment to the payoff is greater than your commitment to forgiveness.
Amen.
Love Always,
Dan
Unforgiveness can only exist if you are getting some kind of a payoff/benefit from it. The payoff isn't always obvious, but the cost of the unforgiveness makes worth it, whatever amount of energy spent on identifying the payoff.
Keeping the payoff is always easier as you have lived with it (typically) for some time. Letting it go requires great humility and a willingness to look for it. God will help you, but, YOU must be willing to consider YOU are the one 100% responsible for the unforgivenss. You are the ONLY reason there is unforgiveness. No one can make you forgive or not forgive. It is all yours.
You are ALWAYS committed to something in everything you do, so, when you have unforgiveness, ask yourself "I am more committed to forgiveness, or am I more committed to the payoff I get from the being the wronged one?" So from this you can see the importance of spending the time to identify what the payoff has been.
Unforgivenss and forgiveness are exclusively your responsibility. So when you have either it is always 100% because that is what you are committed to.
Jesus had every opportunity to explore how he was being and had been, wronged. But His commitment to obedience and forgiveness, was greater than His commitment to his wounds taken. He did not have a change of heart in the middle of the torture.
Whenever it seems "so hard", "too hard", that is a much easier route to take then to let go of the payoff. But consider always what the cost is when your commitment to the payoff is greater than your commitment to forgiveness.
Amen.
Love Always,
Dan
posted by Daniel Hewton at 11:10 a.m.
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