FORGIVENESS
Ester M. Korszyk
Next to love, forgiveness is the greatest message of the
Bible. Jesus showed this great action on
the cross, when He said: “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”
My friend, don’t we still do things not
knowing we hurt someone else at the moment?
For that matter, we misbehave against our brother-sister and waste our
time with anger against another person, instead of repairing our wrong doing,
so we can go on in life, and really advance forward. This is what makes our world go round. But we humans can get stuck about this very
issue, because of our cluttered hearts, which doesn’t let us move forward with
clear minds and hearts in our relationships.
The precious Holy Spirit of God, who is the third person of the Trinity,
is there at any moment for us to listen to, because He is ever so ready to
convict our hearts, not to get us stuck, by any means, but to move forward and repair
or renew the relationship. You see, God
is relational, and always ready to help us to be forgiving ourselves as well as
others. As we do this, we free
ourselves, and at the same time others.
It is also freeing of self from the past; also you can face the future
in a wise manner.
Remember the
Lord’s Prayer? “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against
us.” It is our answer as to however many
times we need to forgive others. “Jesus
answered, I tell you not seven times but seventy times seven.” It’s a form of letting go, and releasing an
action or situation we’ve gone through with another person. That can bring healing and restoration.
In my own life I
have experienced forgiveness, of course in many ways, but this one example is
worthy of mention. As my parents were
separated, my mother, my brother and I had to move to the back of my mother’s
business to live, which was a baby clothes shop, which was made by her own
hands. I remember out of one room, she
made it a bedroom, a kitchen, and there was the little bathroom (the laboratory
and the stall). Those were difficult
times for us three then.
Our little family of three moved to the
U.S. I have grown up with insecurity,
and at the same time wanting to forgive my father. Later years after I’ve gotten married, my
husband and I traveled to my country and the appropriate time came right after church as to letting my father know “Christ in me loves you,
father”. If that isn’t forgiveness, then
I don’t know what it is. That had to
come from God alone only, and the result, was having a good closure, which was
the last time I saw him. The beauty of
all this is having a positive closure with the other person in this issue of
forgiveness. Now I pray for you my
friend to really make it a point to go to the other person and admit your wrong
doing and just straighten it out; and that’s it. It only takes a little moment of recognition. The answer to having closure is found in
Matthew 5: 23-25. There is no excuse for everyone, of us not to
forgive, because time is running out, and Jesus is coming soon for His precious
children, whom He loves so dearly. So
let’s represent Jesus Christ, as He forgave each and every one of us, so we are
to do the same, Oh, what an example He gave.
You can become free right now to forgive and in turn, be forgiven.
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