Mpho Olifant
Why is
difficult to forgive your fellow brothers and sisters? Why have you hardened
your heart? Yes they might have hurt you and caused you excruciating pain but
you must learn to forgive.
Genesis
37:11 gives an insight about how much Josephs brothers hated him because he was
their fathers favourite, they conspired to murder him but ended up selling him.
He spent most of his entire life in Egypt and grew up without his father who
adored him so much and his brothers but at the end, he took care of the very
same brothers who had plotted to assassinate him, helped them and forgave
them!!
Was it easy
for him? No, but because he loved and served an omnipotent God, he forgave his
brothers and after forgiving them, his was re-united with his father and
brothers and able to move on happily.
How many
times have you asked God for forgiveness? How many times did God forgive you
and help you? Why can’t you do the same to those who have hurt you? Especially
in tough times. No matter how hard it
is, learn to be forgiveful and I assure you, you will be ecstatic, have joy, be able to forgive those
who come to you and begs for your forgives, regardless of what they did to you,
don’t keep quiet, just forgive them without any mention of the past.
Let God deal
with every situation, whatever what might have happened belongs in the past and
let God deal with it. Kneel down and pray, tell God that you forgive all those
who have hurt you and ask God to forgive them also. We are all created by God Almighty;
God knows what to do, never judge those who hurt you, let God deal with them
and forgive them.
The God of
our fathers Abraham, Joseph and Moses has seen our misery, let’s bow down
bringing him honour and praise. The minute you forgive, you do not think or
perceive them as foes anymore but your heart will be at peace.
How can you
love God when you are not able to forgive because God forgives and is love? Do
not hold grudges, do not resent or hate, let go, just let go of all the hate
causing you not to forgive, do not point fingers but give all to God.
1 John 3:15 “whosoever hateth his
brother is a murderer and you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding
in him” (KJV)
By Mpho
Oliphant
Edited,
Arranged and Compiled by Teboho Masakala
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