Forgiveness

Thoughts on forgiveness by Saundra Huff

Forgiveness is about giving up our right to judge someone else.

Forgiveness is about forgiving myself for being judgmental instead of trying to justify my anger, hurt, and bitterness.

Forgiveness is about deciding or refusing to think or talk about an incident in which we were hurt.

If it has been over 6 weeks since an incident happened, and it remains unresolved, it's no longer about the incident, it's about ME getting the attention I think I deserve. Look what happened to me. Listen to what happened to me, so you will think someone else is Bad and I am GOOD. ME! ME! ME!

Forgiveness is about choosing to look at who sent the message, not who the messenger is. Satan may have been using them to hurt you, but you are continuing his work in a greater way by holding on to bitterness. Maybe Satan chose the right victim to do a greater work for him.

Forgiveness is to relinquish the right to punish you for what you did. Let go-let God. God doesn't need your help fixing any problem.

Forgiveness is admitting that I am angry that I chose to be hurt by what you did.

Forgiveness is allowing someone else to have personal preferences besides you.

Anger is a live emotion. Being mad is an instantaneous reaction. You can get over it quickly. Anger controls you -changes you- looks to future encounters.

A - allowing

N - negative

G - gratification

E - enlisting

R - revenge

Worship

 Jews were not grafted into the Gentiles. We should not dismiss or belittle their worship history but open our minds to learn from how God established worship and what worship means to Him.

             

       We should not allow our personal preferences to make us close minded to learning about God from the Jews. To understand God only deepens our love for Him. To know what is important to Him (through Jewish not Gentile eyes) means we care enough to please Him as a Bride pleases her husband. Understanding how God wants His people to worship Him does not diminish the gospel but expands grace.

Words

  What's wrong with saying something good to or about someone, even when you know or think you know something bad? Why do we feel so compelled to tell the bad first? Does this make us feel better about ourselves? Is it that we are trying to get someone to focus on the other person so that maybe our own faults or sins might not be so visible? I need to search the scriptures about talking about other people.

Motives

  I recently found myself in a situation where someone was questioning one of my actions. I think the thing that upset me most was that they didn't ask me directly, but ask another friend why I did what I did...as if that friend knew what was in my mind! I began thinking about my past and people I spent a lot of time with and realized that this was a pattern...habit of one particular set of friends. I began searching my heart and my motives and trying to understand my friend, her motives and why she would not have come to me directly. The lesson that I apply to my life is that if I discuss something with a third party, it gives me an opportunity to participate in a form of gossip. When I go directly to the source, it stops innuendos and insinuations about someone else. I don't have to question or imagine or play "what if" ...I just know. May I remember this lesson, Lord. And Lord, may I not be looking to find my sister or brother doing anything just so that I have something to talk about. And Lord, when I find them doing something good, please help me remember to talk about that!

Deserving Love

Love those that least expect it and don’t deserve it.

The Rock

Build on the Rock Christ Jesus. Building on the rock is hard work. Sand castles are fun…not work

Thoughts on Bible Reading

  Not reading the Bible will make one carnal.

First Day

Today is the first day that I am trying this blog thing. I think it's more for me to put my thoughts in writing and then help me sort through what I am thinking. I thought about calling it "no respone requested" because I'm doing this more for me than anyone else.  I have several articles that God has placed on my heart...a few that I have completed but are not satisfied with them as yet...so we'll see