Forgiven and Forgiving...
It's Good Friday again! A time to reflect and remember the sacrifice of Christ (that is if you never do it at another time). So many excuses not to right? "The world is constantly on the move and we got to move with it. Besides we are much too busy to just sit and think upon anything except the bills and how to meet deadlines...." No Jesus, no you! Bottom line you shouldn't wait for Easter or Christmas to think about Jesus.
Anyway, the Easter story is all about forgiveness, love and grace. John 3:16, the verse we were all taught as kids and we can say off the top of our heads...says,For God so LOVED the world that he sent his only begotten son,  that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have ETERNAL LIFE. This is what Easter is about...God loves us so much that he made sure we were made free from all guilt and  gave us life. Way before this, there were laws that said, 'hey! You sinned you have to be punished. Blood must be shed for your freedom.' And get this, it was only temporary freedom. So constantly the priests would make sacrifices for the people's freedom. But Jesus paid the ultimate price, he shed his own blood! And it bought us permanent freedom...God forgave us long before we sinned and made it that as long as we accepted Christ's sacrifice we wouldn't be guilty anymore... so you see, love, forgiveness and grace. We didn't even have to ask he just did it. He died and rose again  for me and you so we can have a kind of life that can't be taken from us.
Can you live like this? I am not saying die for anyone because that slot was taken thousands of years ago.  I mean can you love unconditionally? Whether it is deserved or not? Can you forgive? Whether you get an Apology or not? Whether you keep getting hurt? Can you forgive and let it go totally? In recent times I have been tested in this aspect...and well, I didn't handle it so well. Look, it is human to want to get back or hate or give em a taste of their own evil....but it is Christ to forgive. We get hurt all the time by the least people we expect it from...This is life. But think of how messed up most of our lives get sometimes...think of some of the really crazy stuff you have done and yet big or small sin you got forgiven  before your great great great great great( you get the idea) father was even conceived as an idea in any human' s mind. So I don't think if you were given a 1000 years  to live you would get hurt as much as God does. Truely forgiving is hard but is right and possible. I used to think I could forgive anything till recently...when I figured that my human will could only take me thus far and only the God in me could do that. So yes when you have Christ you can and should forgive anything. You can love the right way from your inside unconditionally...
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