Food for thought 00

What does it mean to truly forgive someone?  I mean we ask for it quite often when we have wronged someone, but a lot of time the degree of what we’ve done isn’t so bad.  Now there are times when we hurt someone and the damage is so server that the one that got hurt really couldn’t stand to be around the one that hurt them.  This situation is harder on the one granting forgiveness, then the one asking it.  My mind goes back to Jesus hanging on that old rugged cross, after all the beating and the mockery. He did something that we today sometimes find so hard to do.  Note the people were not asking for it, but Jesus took it upon himself to ask God for it for the people.  He said, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” What’s remarkable is that Stephen with the spirit of Christ asked the same thing for the mob that stoned him.  When we walk this road of Christ, we will encounter all acts of evil against us.  It could be at work, at school, even in your own home, but having the spirit of Christ within us gives the wiliness to say I forgive you, even if the person asking it may not have really meant it or never even asked at all.  That is way we must at all times avoid handling these things in the flesh.  There are times when the flesh doesn’t want to forgive because of the pain that it has felt.  And if we are not careful we will not forgive, and the Bible clearly states we must forgive others, if we want God to forgive us.  Forgiving someone for the pain they caused is very hard to do, but letting the spirit of Christ work in us will guarantee a victory in Him.   Food for thought, I hope you’re hungry.