What's Love Got To Do With It?
Good Morning,
I do pray that you had a wonderful nights rest last night. Myself, I slept like a 3day old baby and it honestly felt good to just enter into that type of rest. I woke up praying in the spirit and on fire this morning! I am SO EXCITED! Why, you might ask? Simply because this is the day that the Lord has made and He thought enough of me to allow me to be apart of it so I am choosing to be glad and rejoice in it.
What will you choose to do today? Are you going to choose to rejoice in the fact that the Lord gave you another day? Or are you going to complain because the Lord gave you another day.
I find it interesting as I write this devotional and my heart is writing something totally different for my blog site. Eventually the two will catch up with one another. Anyway I wanted to talk to you to day about What's Love got to do with it? Hmm...Wow...Okay!
Please excuse me as I have to shift gears. I feel the Lord leading me to write about unforgiveness. There are a lot of you that are holding on to unforgiveness and it is literally killing you. The bible says in Luke 11:4(KJV), "And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil." Notice it said EVERYONE! How can we ask God to forgive & release us of our wrong and yet we still hold on to the wrong that others have done to us. And then after that it says and lead us not into temptation but devil us from evil! Now I am no theologian however I look at order that things are written in the bible because our God is a God of order, so there had to be a reason why it is written in this order. Could it be that He knew the dangers of not forgiving a person that wrong you? What temptations come along with not forgiving someone, what evil can become of living with unforgiveness? Well I believe the greatest temptation that comes along with unforgiveness is revenge! And what does revenge eventual do, gets you in trouble! And lead us not into temptation. What is temptation. Dictionary.com states that Temptation is defined as a desire to do something wrong ore unwise. And lead us not into the desire of doing something wrong or unwise but deliver us from evil. Evil is defined as, profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity. So, " And lead us not into the desire of doing something wrong or unwise but deliver us from profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity."
I ask you, what profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity thing are you harboring in your heart towards someone because you refuse to forgive them? God, in this season of my life, has seen fit to honor me to be in a guided friendship with one of His daughters. What do I mean by guided? Well simply if He doesn't give me permission to do anything then I don't do anything. On the other hand, if He says its okay or if He instructs me, then I move forward.
But how many of you all know that it took time for a relationship like that to develop. My relationship with God didn't just develop over night. Neither did my guided friendship with His daughter. My reason for using this example is because I had a life before God saw fit to allow us to be friends. We both did actually, but out of respect & love for her I will just focus on me right now.
How do you think our friendship would be if we both chose to hold on to unforgiveness? Do You think that I could honestly love her the way that God desires for me to love her? Or better yet could I love myself like God desires for me to? Oh yes, it is possible to be harboring profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity in your heart towards yourself because of something you just wont let go of!
Did you know that the very sickness and disease that you are dealing with could be caused by that fact that you refuse to forgive! Now, again, I am not an expert on that topic however I can introduce you to Pastor John & His wife Sandi and they will be more than happy to share in dept with you about that particular topic. In fact why don't I just link you to one of the teachings and you can get the information for yourself. I am sure you will find it very beneficial, I know I did. The link is http://mysonrisechurch.ning.com/video/09-17-11-bitterness-part-1-by-john-aldridge. Now before I go I would like to ask you a few questions and they are as follows:
1. Who really suffers from unforgiveness? Is it the person holding on to the unforgiveness or us it the person they wont forgive?
2. Who is it that you the Lord is placing on your heart RIGHT NOW to forgive? I urge you to obey quickly!
3. I John 4:20(KJV), " If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?"
4. Is there anything that I have done to offend you to cause you to hold any type of unforgiveness towards me? If so, I sincerely apologize!
Have a beautiful rest of the day and remember to Trust God, Love & Forgive Yourself & Others!
Brother Stancil, you know your right as I think back a few years ago when someone I use to work with had harmed me physically and caused me great pain for many years afterwards. After the event was over and the pain had gone down about 98% and only showed up slightly every now and then. I kept the anger really deep down inside me. I caused me much grief and even caused me to get some physical reactions that lead to me seeing a doctor.
ReplyDeleteThe doctor could not find anything wrong and the last thing I thought of was that it was caused by my own anger. It took many years before I was able to realize it and make the connection. Once I did make that connection I was able to let go and allow God to work in my private life and heal me. This healing that I received from God took away the real mental pain I was carrying that was causing me some real physical pain. Just the act of forgiving that man helped me mentally, physically and spiritually. It set me free from myself inflected bondage.
To my brothers and sisters I’ll say this… our fear of the unknown (life of forgiveness) is often clouded by our acceptance of the known (life of self-induced pain).
Thanks for sharing your thought, it really blessed me & I am sure it will bless others who read it!
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