Forgiveness, at its core, is not about what someone did to you. Forgiveness is about Me and you. It’s about Me having the power to heal and restore your spirit, and you making the choice to use the healing agent of forgiveness that I have made available to you.
Forgiveness is for you. Forgiveness is the potion that restores a wounded and broken heart, spirit, and even body. There are other spiritual and emotional supplements that can help one whose life has been harmed by the wrongdoing of another, but there is no substitute for forgiveness to bring spiritual cleansing and healing into a life.
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When you are wronged or harmed by another person, your spirit can suffer damage and need restoration. Whether the pain was physical or emotional or both, when you are the object of another person’s ill will or wrong actions, harm can be done to your spirit. I made humans to love and be loved, and positive or negative forces between people have an effect. Love is creative, whereas malice and hatred and lack of love are destructive.
It is human nature, and a spiritual law, that an injury that is done to you hurts you—not just on the surface, but deep down. It affects your spirit. And part of the solution, the healing potion, is forgiveness. There are other factors that will speed your healing—such as seeking Me, My Word, My comfort. But you cannot find full healing until you forgive. It’s not something that can be quantified in terms of logic, but it is a spiritual law. Forgiveness is a healing agent. Love creates. Salvation redeems. Forgiveness heals and restores.
There are many questions that might come to mind when you are dealing with a wrong that was done to you. But when you find yourself in a position where you have been harmed by the wrongs or mistakes of others—whether in a small or large way, whether by intention or mishap, and no matter what the complexities and nuances—the path to resolution remains wrapped in the package of forgiveness. There is simply no other way to fully heal the wounds of the spirit and to restore it and make it whole.
There are often other factors, needs, and decisions that an individual will have to face on the path to forgiveness. There can be many steps toward healing, and some involve communication and understanding in the form of finding out what happened, or enlightening other parties as to what happened, dialogue and discussion and reconciliation. There are also times when the greatest manifestation of forgiveness is silence. The steps to be taken when forgiving are a personal matter and are something that each of My brides must find through communing with Me.
But the choice and act of forgiveness is the vital ingredient. Other things play a minor part in comparison. They are supporting agents, or ways to enact the forgiveness, or to assist in the healing. Forgiveness itself, however, is a choice of the heart. It is a conscious act of the spirit. It is a channeling of divine power.
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Forgiveness becomes harder once you have let yourself become hardened or resentful toward a person or a situation. The more you hold on to it and let resentment and anger linger, the harder your heart can become and the more inflexible your wall of defense can become. Try to learn to say “I forgive you” rather than “How could you?” Be ready to forgive. There will often be something to forgive or someone who needs forgiveness. That is what I came to earth to do: to forgive those who had hurt others or who had sinned. Once I died on that cross, forgiveness was a free gift.
There will be things done to you that you will feel are unforgivable. How can you forgive someone who has intentionally hurt you? It’s not easy, but there is a way: You can ask Me to put enough love in your heart regarding that situation; you can ask Me to fill your heart with understanding and compassion, and remember the day that I died for you so that your sins, or anything wrong you do in this life, could be forgiven. Then you turn around and say, “I forgive you.”
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The act of harm that you have suffered will not be truly over and you cannot fully heal until you have granted forgiveness to the one who caused the harm. Forgiveness stops this hurt.
Forgiveness says, “My body and emotions may be hurt, but I choose to forgive so that I can heal—and in so doing I will protect my spirit.” Forgiveness allows the hurt to end, so it can damage you no further, and gives you space to heal and reverse the damage.
Although your hurt is great, through the power of My Spirit you can forgive anyway. The act of the one who hurt you may continue to hurt you, and may always go on hurting you, until you have forgiven that person. Don’t you want to stop the pain?
I know that the call of “fairness” and anger is strong. I know that it seems so fair and right to slip into the poisonous life of retribution and “an eye for an eye.” It seems to make sense to believe that the responsibility is not on you to forgive, but to instead wish for retribution, and to never let that person have the relief of your forgiveness. But this is not the answer. This is hurt that will go on hurting, a knife that will only plunge deeper.
The more you resent others, the more what they did to you will hurt you and damage your spirit. You can take back your life and reclaim your happiness. You do this by choosing to forgive.
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Forgiveness is the ultimate antidote to the poison of loss, harm, sin, and sorrow. Drink it fully, even though it looks like the most bitter of cures. It can end your pain more quickly than anything else, and those who drink this healing potion will find their wounds healing and their life and joy returning much faster than those who go without it.
I ask that you take forgiveness, give forgiveness, and let Me heal you.
Originally published August 2008. Adapted and republished May 2014.
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