God has been...
placing different people in my life lately who are walking through their "past" and "forgiveness". It has been has been very cool to see how God uses circumstances in our lives to be able to reach out to others. I do not feel adequate in helping people with there issues, but some how God keeps using me and the dusty trail that I have walked on. Two things that I have learned from these encounters is:
1) Bitterness is a roommate that will stay with you for life until you evict it out.
2) Life is to short to not live in freedom.
I have personally met some people who think they are free, but are not. Why? Because they have fooled themselves or have been fooled by our enemy into thinking that they are free. Some of them are scared to deal with becoming free because they don't know what it looks like. In fact, they rather live in the bondage because they are familiar with the end result (because it cycles every time). Freedom scares them because they are afraid of the vulnerability that it brings. Ultimately to find freedom, we need to forgive those in our past. Check out this quote below:
"Those who have truly helped others experience their freedom in Christ will testify that Unforgiveness forgiveness of others is the primary issue that needs to be resolved. by Christians affords Satan his greatest access to the Church, and many believers are bound to the past because they have failed to forgive others as Christ has forgiven them." ~Neil Anderson
Anderson also said,
"Some people react negatively to the idea of forgiving others, because they see it as another form of victimization."
Life is to short to allow some many things to rob us of the blessings that God has given us and the future that He has prepared for us. Forgiveness is not weakness, IT IS FREEDOM. It is not saying what happen to us was right or ok, on the contrary, it is pouring out the poison from the event and beginning a true healing. Forgiveness is something that you can only give willingly. Are you free?
I am not sure my point in this blog, it is just something that popped in my head today and I needed to jot it down. much love, Cham