[The following continues my thoughts of yesterday about forgiveness and how our decision to be a forgiving person is our invitation to God to intervene in our lives in our behalf.]
We make our decision, and then we experience the hook...the uh-oh. Because we are going to get the opportunity, and in very short order, to be that forgiving person. No, that does not mean our loved one is going to be murdered, or, worse, our dog is going to be run over by a texting crazy lady. It means we're going to get to meet our ego face-to-face. We're going to get to walk right up to our I-me-mine boundaries and choose against our self.
I've done it once or twice. So have you. And felt like a saint. [Note: If we felt like a martyred saint, we get no credit. Do over!]
But having done it, having felt so good about our self and taking no credit for our self, why don't we, why will we not, do it more often? Why not look for opportunities to simply get over our self. For that's all it is. Just me getting over me.
The answer, probably, is that we can, it just takes daily discipline...the daily discipline of agreeing with our adversary quickly, of judging not, of resisting nothing (also known as acceptance).
When we do that consistently...as we breathe...we'll know for certain sure that God has intervened in our life for we now are a forgiving person.
Thank you.
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