Therefore, if you refuse to forgive
LOVE is not ACTIVE in your life.
The love that
forgives is not a soft and fuzzy sentiment that lets people manipulate, misuse
and abuse people for their own ends. Love forgives because it is
the powerful motivating factor of a believers life because Jesus is the
believers life. To hold grudges therefore, is to hinder the life of Christ
within us from releasing forgiveness because we do not love as Jesus
loves.
The outflow of "forgiving love" is respect and
commitment to God and to people. If we say we love God but refuse to forgive
then something is blocking our love for God and for people in our
lives.
Love respects people as genuine human beings, even after they have
treated you like dirt. People who hurt you badly are not just lumps of
degenerate corruption; they are complex people who may be used by the enemy, but
there is more to them than meanness and craziness. They have the potential to
become better people, truer people than they were when they stung you. Respect
for them will help you see the real enemy, the rat behind the person. And this
respect can stimulate you to move in the direction of forgiveness. Our fight is
not with flesh and blood, but with spiritual wickedness in high
places.
True love dares to commit itself to someone, and therein lies
both its vulnerability and its power.
The very love that dares to be
vulnerable by making a commitment allows God's power to heal you of the pain
that commitment brings.
Committed love gives us strength to tough out the
bad times in the hope of better times. Committed love does not throw in the
towel before the fight is really over. It holds on. And while it holds, it
energizes, it gives you strength to keep the door open for the day when a new
beginning may be possible.
Loves Forgiveness is the KEY that sets us FREE
from the prison of self-destruction.
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