Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Posts Tagged ‘forgiveness’

WALK WITH ME

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on November 11, 2014| Leave a Comment »

WALK WITH ME in the freedom of forgiveness. The path we follow together is sometimes steep and slippery. If you carry a burden of guilt on your back, you are more likely to stumble and fall.  At your request, I will remove the heavy load from you and bury it at the foot of the cross. When I unburden you, you are undeniably free! 

Stand up straight and tall in My Presence, so that no one can place more burdens on your back. Look into My Face and feel the warmth of My Love-Light shining upon you. It is this unconditional Love that frees you from both fears and sins. 

Spend time basking in the Light of My Presence. As you come to know Me more, and more intimately, you grow increasingly free.

Psalm 68:18    Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens.

1 John 1:7-9    But if the walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 4:18    There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

Michael & Alison Smitherman

The Singing NetSurfers

I will sing to my Lord as long as I live, I will sing

praise to my God while I have my being.

Request that guilt be lifted, stand tall and straight, look to God, feel the warmth of unconditional love and bask in God’s light; free from fear and sin. Then walk with God as Eden is increasingly revealed.

Just a closer walk,

Z gardener

Read Full Post »

On Forgiveness

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on September 22, 2014| 1 Comment »

When it comes to a question of our forgiving other people, it is partly the same and partly different. It is the same because, here also, forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that there was really no cheating or no bullying. But if that were so, there would be nothing to forgive.
They keep on replying, “But I tell you the man broke a most solemn promise.” Exactly: that is precisely what you have to forgive. (This doesn’t mean that you must necessarily believe his next promise. It does mean that you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart—every wish to humiliate or hurt him or to pay him out.) The difference between this situation and the one in which you are asking God’s forgiveness is this. In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people’s we do not accept them easily enough.
The Weight of Glory: And Other Addresses. Copyright © 1949, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright renewed © 1976, revised 1980 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. A Year With C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works. Copyright © 2003 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
We are bound in chains to every unforgiven hurt we hold. Unless we release them through forgiveness, they lock us to the pain. 
 
So today, let us fully and freely forgive everyone who has hurt us. It will free them and us.
 
Being free,
Z gardener

Read Full Post »

On Forgiveness

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on June 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality (unless I watch myself very carefully) asking Him to do something quite different. I am asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me. But there is all the difference in the world between forgiving and excusing. 
 
Forgiveness says “Yes, you have done this thing, but I accept your apology, I will never hold it against you and everything between us two will be exactly as it was before.” But excusing says “I see that you couldn’t help it or didn’t mean it, you weren’t really to blame.”. . .
 
Real forgiveness means looking steadily at the sin, the sin that is left over without any excuse, after all allowances have been made, and seeing it in all its horror, dirt, meanness and malice, and nevertheless being wholly reconciled to the man who has done it.
 
The Weight of Glory: And Other Addresses. Copyright © 1949, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright renewed © 1976, revised 1980 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Words to Live By: A Guide for the Merely Christian. Copyright © 2007 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

 

The only unforgivable sin is one for which we do not repent, for which we think no forgiveness is needed, and/or for that which we have not admitted or accepted.
 
Forgiveness must be sought by a person who has accepted their sin, turned away from it and asked to be forgiven for it. It can not be given to those who believe they do not need it.
 
Seeking forgiveness,
Z gardener

Read Full Post »