The Lord has really been talking to me about these 5 little words that are a part of the “Love” scriptures. Imagine with me right now is there anyone or anything that as soon as you see them this like movie reel plays in your head of all the wrongs they have done to you, reasons why you may stay away from them or just thoughts you have of a person that might be coming over or passing by that you just wish they would go away because maybe they hurt you in the past. Or they didn’t do something you expected them to do. Maybe you even thought you forgave them but you don’t really trust them. Well that is me, I thought I had truly forgiven some people from what they did to me in my past but I still had this record of wrongs and would only let them come so close and never fully would trust them after that.
The Lord is teaching me how to really open up to everyone, to trust everyone fully with no expectation and to Love like he does. We have for years heard the Love scriptures used in weddings, 1 Corinthians 13 you know the verses Love is patient, Love is kind it does not envy, it does not boast, it keeps no record of wrongs. See God is teaching me that these verses are not just meant to be between husband and wife, or parent and child, etc. That these verses are to be the definition of Love we are to share with everyone, everyday no matter how much you may have been hurt, neglected or felt like they don’t care. Sometimes we get hurt by someone and they didn’t even know that they hurt you, sometimes they do. I even want to address the fact that sometimes when someone hurts us we even try to blame God for that persons mistake, or if it is a parent that hurts you we ask questions like why God did you give me them as parents?
I am in no way saying that it is okay for people to hurt you physically,mentally, verbally, or spiritually. I am on the other hand saying that you are to forgive them, look at Jesus’ example as he was on the cross even as they were still beating him, he called out to God saying Father Forgive them for they know not what they do. We are to be Christ imitators, we are to follow him and what He asked us to do. So when he tells us to turn the other cheek it means we are to forgive, we are to love even though they did something to hurt you. Jesus said to forgive 70×7 times but it was saying that number to say there is a limit but to show that you are always to forgive. We are called to love the Lord your God with all our heart and to secondly love our neighbor as our-self. With the definition of Love being in 1 Corinthians 13 there is a lot of things we need to learn and work on so that we can share the Lords love with the world. We need to learn that we are not the Judge and that the Lord is and he is a good and merciful judge. We need to remember that no one is perfect and that everything will not always go the way that you think they are supposed to.
I want you to do me a favor if this fits you, can you write out a list of the things that you were wronged and those who wronged you. Then I want you to take that list and talk to God about each item on that list. I want you to forgive the person for each of the wrongs and ask the Lord to bless that person and release them from the bondage you are holding them in and ask the Lord is there any other un-forgiveness in your heart. If there is a list of wrongs you can’t forgive yourself for do this too. Once all of that is done ask the Lord to remove the movie real of wrongs from your mind and tear up the piece of paper that they were all written on. You can burn it or trash it but it is just a symbolic act of what you did spiritually to walk out truly forgiving them. Start out Fresh everyday with the Love God has for you and wants to live out through you to others. I will leave you with 1 Corinthians 13 because we need to live this every day with every one we meet.”If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
