There was an article about something to do to
improve your relationship – It said, you should both write down the five things
in your relationship that irritate you the most in the other person. Then set down and have an airing out session
where you talk about those things, one to the other. But we get defensive about being wrong. Yet integrity is deciding to ask GOD to help
me let go of my feelings of defensiveness and just admit it when I'm wrong.
I want you to understand where the strength to do
this comes from. You're not going to
find the strength to be forgiving, to admit it when you're wrong in your own
good character. You don't find it there. You're not going to find it in the other
person's good character. It's not going
to happen that way. It's found in GOD's
forgiveness of us. I John 1:9 (LB), "If
we confess our sins to HIM, HE can be depended on to forgive us and to cleanse
us from every wrong."
If you want to be forgiving, you must be
forgiven. You must find in JESUS CHRIST the
forgiveness that we all need. That's
where that strength comes from.
Struggling to forgive others, 90% of the time it's because you need to
recognize the wonderful forgiveness in your life. That's the place to start.
Just a thought from the front porch…
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