Dan Byl

But I don’t wanna,

It’s a funny thing how we bask in the fact that God will forgive us, but when we are asked for our forgiveness we give it with a half hearted huff and a puff.

I have been learning about Gods forgiveness, and as a result I have been challenged to address the way that I go about forgiving the people in my life. I have been thinking about the way that God forgives me, he is ready at the to forgive me at the very moment I ask. He reaches out says yes you are clean, here let me put my blood over that spot so that it can’t be seen anymore. He doesn’t have to think about it, he may be hurt by the rejection we have just showed him, but as we do what we do, he is in some way preparing him self to forgive, so that the moment we ask he can give it whole hearted with out a moment of hesitation.

I am also coming to the understanding that the person I really need to learn how to let of the hook is me. I sit in a puddle of self loathing, if not just for some sort of sense of attention. We like attention and so our pity parties are in some way a way of getting attention. I need to claim the blood of Christ and focus on some other thing. There is no sense in dwelling on the problem.

What void am I trying to fill? What attitude do I need to change in order to not act the way I did are the things I need to focus on, not necessarily on the action.

So when it comes to my own life I need to position my self so that in a moment of offense I am going to God so that when the moment comes for me to forgive I am ready. I need to continually prepare my self to forgive so that I don’t dwell on the offense, so that I don’t allow it to grow in my mind or a void to be created between me and the offender.

When Christ taught us to pray part of what he said was “ father forgive us our trespasses just as we for give those who trespass against us.”

Food for thought

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