FORGIVENESS

Can it be when she is taken by force, and He persues her to the desires of his will; and all innocence is stripped away, and the tears flow, and there is no where to go, can forgiveness be found?

When a violation of the human spirit is broken and the flesh is torn, and the brutality of life is real, and the pain so grave, can forgiveness come?

The human spirit, resilient as it is, suffers with and of Christ.  No matter what the occurance, the inflicted wounds of our savior were as real as the wounds we suffer today.  He is no stranger to pain.   One could say, Jesus invented pain.   Why?    Because His pain was that of the whole world.  His pain was, and still is, betrayal, abandonment, and anguish.   For His desire was to win every soul to the Father, and restore all mankind to the love of God.   After all He has done, He is still mocked, abandoned, rideculed, blasphemed, and betrayed.   Yet, pure, perfect, and true, He forgives completely and totally unto death.

His sacrifice of forgiveness, is our example of forgiveness to each other.   Yet, it is not so easy when it is the  heart that has been peirced, and the flesh that has been broken, and the spirit has been crushed.    Only God can teach us to forgive.   Sometimes, in the course of this life the betrayal, lies, and abandonment are cause for such heartache that we say, we will never forgive.    This choice is a choice to offend God, and blaspheme the love of  Jesus Christ.   The love of Jesus Christ is realized when we choose to suffer with Him, for Him, and because of Him.

Is it easy?  No!! No way!  It is a trial, and a constant desire to love God fully and without reservation, and then one can come to the fullness of peace that only God can give.

So important is forgiveness that Jesus died brutally to prove the point. 
Some scriptures expounding on the nescessity of forgivenss.

In the Book of The ‘Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians’
Chapter 2 verse10-11

10) ‘If you forgive a man anything, so do I.     Any forgiving I have done has been for your sakes and , before Christ.  11) To prevent Satan-whose guile we know too well-from outwitting us.’

In the Book Of Matthew Chapter 18 : verses 21-22  & 35

21) Then Peter came up and asked him, “Lord, when my brother wrongs me, how often must I forgive him? Seven times?”  22) “NO” Jesus replied, “Not seven times: I say seventy times seven times.”

35) “My heavenly  Father will treat you in exactly the same way unless each of you forgives his brother from his heart.”

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