Forgiveness is something I've struggled with understanding my entire life.
Up to this point in my life (pre awakening) It meant letting go of the anger & disappointment toward people that wronged me.
But the "wrongs" against me, when compared to the stuff that I have learned recently is pretty petty stuff. Vengeance is God's not mine. (A cheating spouse, being gossiped about, getting cut off in traffic)
Post awakening- I'm back to struggling. The evil & wrongs I now know about are almost unimaginable. If anyone hurts my family I will protect them, period. I will seek justice myself - as the "justice" system is a complete failure. I cannot apply the same definition I have of forgiveness to these sick rotten bastards.
Through my own struggles I came to view forgiveness differently. I thought I had to feel it, but I recognized one day that forgiveness, like love, was not primarily something I had to feel but something I had to do. It was a choice, a choice to release people from the judgment I required to feel a sense of justice. It was a choice to leave such determinations to God.
Whenever I made that choice my soul had rest, even if it took my feelings a while to catch up. I was able to stop worrying about people not getting what they deserved because it was no longer my problem. It wasn’t like I knew what anyone deserved in any case, including what I might deserve.
I began to see a pattern. Every time I released people from my need for balance regarding something they did to me, it seemed that a judgment was made in my favor. The thing they purposed to do to me suddenly came upon them, whisking them out of my face and out of my life without me having to lift a finger or even speak to it. The exceptions were those people for whom mercy required a partnership with God to redeem them from whatever they were doing to themselves, and the only participation required of me was to actively love them, choosing to be kind and ignoring their offenses to be unconditionally on their side.
Of course, this is all personal and does not dash away the need for justice in society. Every nation has institutions established to provide it, but when those institutions fail or become hostile, as they obviously are today, people have no choice but to resist them. If they cannot change them, they will provide their own defense against them. If that is not enough they will take up arms to remove them by force with the purpose of establishing something better.
I hope it won’t come to that in America. The powers that manipulate us have been trying very hard to destabilize the United States. A civil war is what they want. I have prayed, asking God not let them have what they want. I asked Him to give them just the opposite of what they want, and that whatever they do to get what they want will work against them to bring the exact opposite of what they are looking to achieve. So far it looks like He has answered my prayers and the prayers of a multitude of others who are asking for exactly the same thing. I know it looks like people are escaping justice, but it is only a matter of time. God is dealing with them, and the longer He lets them go, the more certain their judgment becomes as their evil deeds pile up to testify against them. These people have actively shaken their fists at God. They are resisting Him on purpose, and He doesn’t ignore that. Neither does he ignore the blood of the innocent that cries out for justice before his throne, the very foundation of which is justice. He is answering it, and there is no place the perpetrators can go to escape what will happen to them.
Peace to you, warrior of light. May your soul find rest, even in the midst of battle.
I was reading this with my coffee this morning, and that this is the very same proposition many of us face in these daunting times...very introspective, covered all of the different thoughts in my head, anyhow...i do wonder what i would do, if i found myself alone with fauci somewhere, he with his jab syringe and me with a bayonet...what course of action/inaction would i take? jab = bayonet? fair fight, i think...
I must confess that I have sometimes drifted with my morning coffee into fantasies about what punishments would be just, and I reflected that it was good God didn't put me in charge of that. Without His wisdom and restraint I could easily descend into brutality those people haven't even thought of. But that is not who I choose to be, so I refrain from soothing notions of a jab a day until they die of their own devices.
My peace comes of what I know, that they will pay the last penny if they don't repent. If they do repent (truly, not just putting on another show with their acting skills), I would welcome them as brothers and men because I need forgiveness, too, and God does not negotiate on the issue. A single unimaginable price was paid for those people as well as for me, and I would have no right to complain if it pleases God's mercy to apply it to one of them.
That last bit might be outrageous to some, but I am convinced that no justice ever gets trampled underfoot by God's mercy. Justice is always done. In every single case someone pays the price, and in my case justice has been done, just not to me.
Yes I have had similar experiences and I have let go of past issues- it was freeing & rewarding.
My struggle now is I can't put away what I feel towards those who have deceived us and put my family and loved ones in danger with this covid shit, and even less so for the satanists harming children
I also pray their evil intentions be directed right back to them and to silence the liars and present the truthers with a platform. All of these prayers have been answered in one way or another.
I also pray that our Father in heaven keep these bastards away from me because I am weakened with a rage I feel is warranted.
I WANT them to be punished and I WANT them to suffer and while I don't HAVE a need or desire to be the one to bring it; I can and I will be vicious.
Forgiveness is something I've struggled with understanding my entire life.
Up to this point in my life (pre awakening) It meant letting go of the anger & disappointment toward people that wronged me.
But the "wrongs" against me, when compared to the stuff that I have learned recently is pretty petty stuff. Vengeance is God's not mine. (A cheating spouse, being gossiped about, getting cut off in traffic)
Post awakening- I'm back to struggling. The evil & wrongs I now know about are almost unimaginable. If anyone hurts my family I will protect them, period. I will seek justice myself - as the "justice" system is a complete failure. I cannot apply the same definition I have of forgiveness to these sick rotten bastards.
I feel you. I have my own thoughts on this issue.
Through my own struggles I came to view forgiveness differently. I thought I had to feel it, but I recognized one day that forgiveness, like love, was not primarily something I had to feel but something I had to do. It was a choice, a choice to release people from the judgment I required to feel a sense of justice. It was a choice to leave such determinations to God.
Whenever I made that choice my soul had rest, even if it took my feelings a while to catch up. I was able to stop worrying about people not getting what they deserved because it was no longer my problem. It wasn’t like I knew what anyone deserved in any case, including what I might deserve.
I began to see a pattern. Every time I released people from my need for balance regarding something they did to me, it seemed that a judgment was made in my favor. The thing they purposed to do to me suddenly came upon them, whisking them out of my face and out of my life without me having to lift a finger or even speak to it. The exceptions were those people for whom mercy required a partnership with God to redeem them from whatever they were doing to themselves, and the only participation required of me was to actively love them, choosing to be kind and ignoring their offenses to be unconditionally on their side.
Of course, this is all personal and does not dash away the need for justice in society. Every nation has institutions established to provide it, but when those institutions fail or become hostile, as they obviously are today, people have no choice but to resist them. If they cannot change them, they will provide their own defense against them. If that is not enough they will take up arms to remove them by force with the purpose of establishing something better.
I hope it won’t come to that in America. The powers that manipulate us have been trying very hard to destabilize the United States. A civil war is what they want. I have prayed, asking God not let them have what they want. I asked Him to give them just the opposite of what they want, and that whatever they do to get what they want will work against them to bring the exact opposite of what they are looking to achieve. So far it looks like He has answered my prayers and the prayers of a multitude of others who are asking for exactly the same thing. I know it looks like people are escaping justice, but it is only a matter of time. God is dealing with them, and the longer He lets them go, the more certain their judgment becomes as their evil deeds pile up to testify against them. These people have actively shaken their fists at God. They are resisting Him on purpose, and He doesn’t ignore that. Neither does he ignore the blood of the innocent that cries out for justice before his throne, the very foundation of which is justice. He is answering it, and there is no place the perpetrators can go to escape what will happen to them.
Peace to you, warrior of light. May your soul find rest, even in the midst of battle.
I was reading this with my coffee this morning, and that this is the very same proposition many of us face in these daunting times...very introspective, covered all of the different thoughts in my head, anyhow...i do wonder what i would do, if i found myself alone with fauci somewhere, he with his jab syringe and me with a bayonet...what course of action/inaction would i take? jab = bayonet? fair fight, i think...
I must confess that I have sometimes drifted with my morning coffee into fantasies about what punishments would be just, and I reflected that it was good God didn't put me in charge of that. Without His wisdom and restraint I could easily descend into brutality those people haven't even thought of. But that is not who I choose to be, so I refrain from soothing notions of a jab a day until they die of their own devices.
My peace comes of what I know, that they will pay the last penny if they don't repent. If they do repent (truly, not just putting on another show with their acting skills), I would welcome them as brothers and men because I need forgiveness, too, and God does not negotiate on the issue. A single unimaginable price was paid for those people as well as for me, and I would have no right to complain if it pleases God's mercy to apply it to one of them.
That last bit might be outrageous to some, but I am convinced that no justice ever gets trampled underfoot by God's mercy. Justice is always done. In every single case someone pays the price, and in my case justice has been done, just not to me.
Yes I have had similar experiences and I have let go of past issues- it was freeing & rewarding.
My struggle now is I can't put away what I feel towards those who have deceived us and put my family and loved ones in danger with this covid shit, and even less so for the satanists harming children
I also pray their evil intentions be directed right back to them and to silence the liars and present the truthers with a platform. All of these prayers have been answered in one way or another.
I also pray that our Father in heaven keep these bastards away from me because I am weakened with a rage I feel is warranted. I WANT them to be punished and I WANT them to suffer and while I don't HAVE a need or desire to be the one to bring it; I can and I will be vicious.
Boy, do I get all that. I look forward to the day when our outrage can be folded and put away because justice was done.
Much grace to you. May God give you the power to bide the time.
God Bess you Fren
WWG1WGA
Well said.
I’m with you, 💯