Here is some food for your Daily Bread!
8/28—Start Your Day Off Right Series
Quote:
• Respect all. Fear none.”
• The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.”
Story:
As you are reading this I am sure some of you have strained relationships that need fixing and have needed fixing for such a long time. Fathers and Sons, Mothers and Daughters, good friends who haven’t spoken or have avoided each other for a long, long time. Why don’t you just pick up the phone if they are not near you, or better still, Go and see them if possible.
If I could say something that would prick the heart and conscience of just one person reading this, I would feel like its existence would be well worth it!
Hasn’t your separation gone on long enough? Some of you have even forgotten what it was all about, and why it even happened.
I don’t know why you feel the way you do but I do know that it’s not worth it.
We should treat every living person as if they would be gone from this earth within the next twenty four hours.
The person that you have a strained relationship with may very well be gone within twenty four hours. In the cemetery there will be apologies never made and forgiveness never given.
You may not see the bars and no one else may not be able to see them but you’re in prison all the same. Oh I’m not saying that you don’t ever get out or ever get away from those bars. But like a caged animal you eventually come back to your cage.
I hate for something so small to make you a little person when you could’ve been something big. Don’t you hate for something to have such a hold on you that it wounded you and rendered you helpless.
Friend I know it looks like a mountain and looks so hopeless and helpless. I would love to see the handcuffs and shackles fall off you at this very moment and you be free.
Don’t tell me that you are getting accustomed to this and you are actually enjoying it. Don’t tell me that you have wallowed in this for so long that you are actually getting comfortable in wallowing?
When Moses went before the pharaoh and asked to let God’s people go, God sent plagues to the Egyptians.
One of the plagues was frogs. Pharaoh said that he would let the people go. Moses asked him when did he want the frogs to leave. Pharaoh told Moses tomorrow.
To me this is unbelievable and unacceptable to be willing to live with the frogs another day. I wouldn’t want the frogs in my bed and in my stove another night.
When are you going to forgive,tomorrow? You are willing to sleep with unforgiveness another night and wallow in stubbornness?
I can just almost hear your thoughts. You want to know if I am asking you to forgive when you know you are in the right. Yes, that’s exactly what I’m doing, because you can have the right away in an automobile and still be killed.
Oh, I’m doing all right you may be saying. Oh really, whether you know it or not you are dying by degrees.
Besides this you may be killing the other person as well. Why don’t you give the gift that keeps on giving, forgiveness!
You may be praying that they will come to you and start the process of forgiving. And they may be praying that you may come to them and start the process of forgiving.
You’d better hurry or you just want to let them beat you out in being the bigger person!
If I had acid in my hand that I was going to pour on you for something you had done, my hand would be eaten up before I could get it on you. That’s what’s going on in your heart it’s gonna kill you and eat you up before it gets to him or her.
How about laying your weapon of unforgiveness down and go to that person unarmed?
When you go seek to understand first and then be understood later! I just feel like someone is going to take me up on this. When your chains fall off of you would you please email me and tell me that you’re free at encourager98@yahoo.com? I would like to celebrate with you!!
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Scripture:
Matthew 6:14-15
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
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