Dealing with Anger
At any given point in life, someone will wrong you. Either deliberately or not. It may be a stranger or someone you know very well. But how we react when someone has wronged us will really depend on our willingness to forgive.
Unforgiveness is the lack of forgiveness when you have been offended by someone. It is completely denying to extend a hand of forgiveness even when one pleads for it.
Forgiveness can be a hard thing to do to most people but the moment one understands its benefits it can become very easy. If we understand the loving kindness of God and his forgiveness, that if it wasn’t for the forgiveness of God no one could be standing at this moment.
If You, Lord, should mark iniquities Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with You,That You may be feared.
(Psalms 130:3-4)
When Jesus Christ is teaching His disciples about prayer He remembers to mention forgiveness in the prayer. And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors.( Mathew 6:12).
This means that always in our prayers we should be;
Ask God for forgiveness.
Sin enters man in various ways, it can be through our eyes, evil thoughts, what we speak what we hear, or even our actions. Or even not doing what you are required to do. All that is sin.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
(1 John 1:8-9)
God is always ready to forgive us because of His mercies and grace. And whenever He forgives us He doesn’t remember our sins anymore.
For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
(Psalms 103:11-12).
Therefore we should always remember to ask God to forgive us in our prayers.
2. Forgive those who have sinned against us.
During the times of Jesus Christ and the Old Testament. One could ask for forgiveness from God based on the fact that they had already forgiven one another. That is why in the Lord’s prayer Jesus Christ said, And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors. (Mathew 6:12).
But after the finished work of Jesus Christ at the cross things changed. We no longer now forgive as we forgive others but as Jesus Christ has forgiven us.
Therefore when the Apostles are writing their episodes the Holy Spirit reveals to them that now the basis of our forgiveness is just as Jesus Christ forgave us our sins.
“And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.”
(Ephesians 4:32)
“bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. “
(Colossians 3:13).
Prayer:
Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for the blood that was shed at the cross for our forgiveness. Thank you because once we believed in you our sins were forgiven. Help us to forgive just as you God in Christ forgave us. In Jesus name we pray, Amen.
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