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Lesson #1 – Forgiveness is not easy. If you some how make it into something easy, then you aren’t doing it right. This is true for both giving forgiveness and receiving forgiveness. Why is it that we humans have such a difficult time with forgiveness? Instead we would rather be smug and think we are right rather than receive or give forgiveness to someone else. Yet forgiveness is a kind of like taking the weight off of your shoulders.
Lesson #1.2 – We receive forgiveness from God. There is nothing you can do to earn this. This means we can be grateful for the forgiveness we receive. This allows us to then go and forgive others.
Lesson #1.3 – The world is desperate for forgiveness. The other option is something we witness already – egotism, digging in, name calling and belittling, attacking, etc. There’s plenty of that going on in the world. We see how well that works – it doesn’t. It’s time to move on past that to forgiveness.
Poooor Joshua!! Too bad he lived in the Old Testament time……he could have learned a thing or two from Jesus, but I guess he lived exactly when God wanted him to.
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well said.
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I took an aside from your forgiveness writing to read your tweet about Joshua. I can’t remember my password for Tweet cause I never use it. Might begin.
Yes, forgiveness….so difficult. It was made easier for me after I forgave my mother. Unfortunately, it was after she died because she was clueless that she needed to be forgiven! Going forward from that, with prayer and help from God thru the Hoky Spirit, I have been able to forgive more freely and also get past the bristling feeling I get around a couple of people…even church members….and began to focus on their strengths and things I admire about them. Only The Holy Spirit can do such miraculous things!!
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Thanks for sharing Lynne. Forgiveness is not easy for people. You are not alone.
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Is there a way to “forward” this to a friend on Msngr. If not I guess I can ask her if I can subscribe her. It’s the one who was told if she had more faith, she wouldn’t be so sick by several Christians and pastors. I don’t want it to come across that I’m doing this to further urge her to give us a try but more to help ease her hurt.
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I’m not sure, but you can always copy and paste the web address of the post into Messenger or any other app – I’m pretty sure.
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