Do you ever find yourself arguing for argument’s sake? Do you feel like it’s your job to point out the other side of the issue or like you have to have the last word? If so, could you be a contentious woman, at least at times? And if you see this tendency, what can you do to become more Christlike?
Family feuds can be some of the most difficult to settle, yet God places a high priority on unity and peace within our biological families and within the family of God.
Sometimes that can be challenging to achieve in the midst of family feuds and misunderstandings. And there are times when we do all we can to be at peace with someone but the other person simply won’t. There can, also, be times when choosing what might look like peace is really a compromise at the cost of truth and righteousness.
We’ve all been there. We know God says we should forgive, but we’re just not feeling it! Maybe we’re thinking:
“I’m not going to forgive! After all … it’s not the first time!”
“If I forgive he’ll think it’s OK to do it again.”
“What she said really hurt! It’s time someone gave her some of her own medicine!”
“I’ll forgive, but I’m not going to forget!”
“Well, I’m just not ready to forgive.”
“I don’t know how to forgive when I’m not feeling it!”
“It would be hypocritical to say I forgive when I don’t mean it!”
But could there be some things about forgiveness that we don’t understand and that could help us forgive, even when we’re not feeling it?
We all know forgiveness is important. In fact, if we have been a believer for any length of time we know that God commands us to forgive. But sometimes, we just don’t know how to do it.
So what is forgiveness? Does it require us to forget or to act like the hurt or the sin never happened? What does it mean to forgive as God forgives us?
Maybe you have questions, too. I hope to answer some of them in the next two posts.
We’ve all heard it, read it, and probably been told it at some time or another: “Just forgive!” Or sometimes it is put in more secular terms: “Get over it!” Those of us who are walking with the Lord know we...
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