OK…lately I haven’t written a lot…God has been doing a DEEP work…it’s hard to talk when He’s rooting out faulty stuff from your foundations. Lately, He’s been teaching me to see through the doctrines I have been taught all my life and seek out what His Word ACTUALLY says. Right now I am meditating on the verse out of Matthew 6:14-15 which is Jesus talking. He says, “For IF you forgive men when they sin against you, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you. But IF you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will NOT forgive your sins.” So, if I take God at His word, I better do some forgiving of others. Of course I do this, but God has been showing me the depth and seriousness of forgiving.
If I don’t forgive, several things will happen. One is that a chasm will form between me and that person that kills relationship. It will not only limit the relationship I can have with the person, but also with God Himself. Second, a root of bitterness will begin to grow in my heart that will make me succeptible to Satan’s temptations and plan in my life..i.e. I open the door to the Enemy for him to come in and have access to my mind and heart. If I do not stop that bitterness, it will grow and grow until it is out of control and thus choking out the “good” growth that allows intimacy with God. Which leads us to the third thing, separation from God…If all of this is not stopped, ultimately I “will not be forgiven” of my own sins which means (if I take God at His Word) being eternally somewhere I don’t want to be.
If you haven’t taken forgiveness seriously enough, please do. Rethink it…eternity hangs in the balance. Is your grudge worth it? My apologies if this got too serious, but I did say He has been doing a DEEP work for the past two months…DEEP work is always serious.
