OUR DAILY BENEFITS DEVOTIONAL
WEDNESDAY MARCH 20, 2024
EPHESIANS 4:32
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
SCHOOL OF LIFE: FORGIVENESS
Forgiveness is to ceased from resentment towards an offender. It's to stop going to prison for another person's offense. It's an unconditional instruction given by God men to enhance peace and joy on earth.
It's common to see selective forgiveness being practiced by many today. We now have forgivable and unforgivable offences; gender based offences (offences that if men default, they must be Forgiveness but if women default, they must be crucified) and unforgivable customary offences.
Forgiveness is a spiritual and moral instruction not a customary or social tradition. It is not a gift to be prayed for but a virtue to cultivate. It is not selective of offense, office or gender. It is a mandatory requisite for securing our own forgiveness from God. Forgiveness must be full of love and mercy.
Forgiveness is a symbiotic virtue. It is beneficial to both the offender and the offendee. It delivers the offendee from self afflicted pains while giviing the offender a second chance to make amends. It may or may not stop the consequences of our defaulting, but it restores the offender back into the fold. Unforgiveness on the other hand is the foundation for offence, a second away from anger and the residence of bitterness. When unforgiveness matures, it gives birth to wickedness.
Be loving and compassionate. Resist the temptations of unforgiveness by forgiving one another and be free and healthy.
AFFIRMATION
I deliver myself from anger and bitterness. I forgive!
PRAYERS
Father, give me courage to forgive others as you forgive me in Jesus name
Good morning beloved!e
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