Craziest thing in the World…
“For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.” Matthew 6:14, 15 NIV
I had been struggling all of our first month out with wondering if I had truly forgiven someone who hurt me. I am waiting for physical healing, and thought maybe this “unforgiveness” was blocking it somehow. I continually was plagued by the thoughts, “Am I seeking to first forgive or first be healed?”
Christ speaks specifically about this because well…. there just may be something to that.
Lori (lovingly referred to as Morning Glory), a missionary and spiritual titan at Iris Ministries in Dondo, Mozambique told me this:
“When something has been covered by the blood of Christ, it will not be drug up again. It remains covered. Anything else is a lie.”
I forgive for forgiveness sake because I am called to. I cannot allow someone else’s sin to affect my journey with Christ.
Then, as things should go on the side of the road to Swaziland, our bus broke down.
My schedule was suddenly now freed up.
Through some much needed and Spirit led dialogue with my sisters Desirae Holdaway and Sarah Ann White, God revealed something very important to me:
I was buying some BS that the enemy had been selling me for a while.
This is unacceptable.
I am a son of the King. I can’t help but forgive. It is my nature and my reality in my sonship to forgive others.
You cannot love like Christ without a forgiving heart, and that’s a lesson He brought me through in the most intense way last year.
Our God doesn’t stutter. Ever.
The enemy is a liar. Period.
So I ditched the devil on that road to try and drag someone else down. My van is full of Love and Grace.
We love because He first loved us. We forgive because He longs to forgive us.
