Saturday, November 22, 2008
What did I learn?
Forgiveness. It's hard to dish out, it's hard to receive. But I guess knowing it is half the battle won. In life, there are so many things we want to compare, relationships, attitudes, preferences. But they are all personal and whose to say what's right or wrong? There is no universal law for such things. Forgiveness might be easier for me to give, than it is for someone else, does that mean I judge him for his lack of ability to forgive quickly? May be he needs time. But then how much time can I give? Now we come to patience. The chain could go on.
Distortion. Apparently it is the result of selective perception. We hear what we want to hear, we retain what we want to retain. Then we act on our perception and claim we are right, but are we really? We can't possibly answer that question ourselves since we've already blocked out that which we refused to acknowledge.
But I guess that's what people are like. It is easier to be forgiven and forget, than to forgive and forget. Then, knowing this, can we use it in our defense for our inability to forgive, since we want to forgive, and we know that we should. Imagine if God said that to us. "Son, I know that I should forgive you, and I really want to, but after all that you've done I don't think I can, you understand right?"
Matthew 6:14-15
For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
Dan
2:16 pm
