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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Let it Go

Have you ever been hurt by someone you love or trust? Has their action surprised you and made you think less of them?  Do you feel disillusionment in your heart growing?  Unchecked, it will ultimately grow into unforgiveness. And that will rob you of your joy.

Unforgiveness is a terrible cancer. It eats at your spiritual health and ultimately destroys your relationship with God. God has given man a free will to choose or reject Him, and you also have a free will to forgive or not to forgive.

            “Do not judge,” Jesus instructs, “and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven” (Luke 6:37). Isn’t the inability to forgive really judgment of that person? Your hurt and your pain do not give you a license to judge that person. It does not give you a license to be angry.

            When you are devastated by someone's action, you have a choice what to do with the disillusionment and hurt. If you allow that hurt to define who you are, unforgiveness (bitterness) will be your banner. It will immobilize you. You are then in bondage to your pain. The Holy Spirit invites you to acknowledge your pain so you might forgive. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom,” Paul writes (2 Corinthians 3:17). God does not want you in bondage to your hurt or your disillusionment over someone else’s failure. That hurt can become your own failure. If you know the Lord, you have the freedom and the power to forgive.
            Perhaps you feel with all your heart that your love is 100%. No human being can give their love at 100% as Christ gave His love. You give your very best, and your very best will not happen if there is judgment, hurt, and unforgiveness. Your very best is to allow His love to flow through you, and if it is His love instead of your own, then that stone in your heart of disillusionment will dissolve.
 Are you tired of the hurt you feel when another person doesn’t live up to Christ’s sacrificial love? Have you ever considered that your hurt also keeps you from living up to it? Let the pain go. Let the disillusionment and hurt go. Look to Christ as your perfect sacrifice because no one else can be that. Realize that no one is perfect. The Lord “will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit in you, and will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh” (Ezekiel 36:26).

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