Forgiveness

I know that you probably have people in your life that are hard to forgive. I can tell you from my experience, when my mother slept with my first husband, and I was still married to him,  then again on my second marriage she decided to have a relationship with my husbands half brother and then lied to all my family saying that I didn't talk to her because she had a new guy younger than her. Forgiveness was not even on my radar. Believe me, it was tough, it took me 5 years to finally forgive her and move on with my life.

I recently found myself once again in a situation where it was hard for me to forgive someone. It's so hard for me to see other people suffering, specially kids due to the irresponsibility of adults. But once again I had to forgive and move on. You need to lose that baggage that consumes you everyday.This time it only took me a few days =) I guess practice makes perfect huh!?

God will carry you the whole way if you trust in him, and on top of it, he will heal your wounds. God is so great and perfect that he will deliver you from the pain, discomfort, anger, frustration and any other ill feeling you may have towards something or someone. 

I've learned that:

• Forgiveness is not a feeling is an act of obedience to God. He forgives your trespasses, Don't you think we can do the same for others?.
• Forgiveness- isn't ignoring what the other person did, its giving the offense to the Lord. He will take care of it.
• Forgiveness is a frequent act of practice and not a one time event. God often allows people like that in our life so we can depend on him for strength.

Again, forgive and leave it in Gods hands. He is righteous, just and knows exactly what you're going through.

Obedience

Being a Christian is all about obedience and not religion. 

Religion: we can all say that they all have rules, that they're all fake, a bunch of hypocrites, etc. but the thing is, that it is NOT religion that we should be following, if following anything at all, we should be concentrating in being more Christ like, reading the word, and becoming a disciple of God.We can spend all of our lives doing the same things, because that is what we know, but change! Oh no!, that creates an issue because now we're being asked to give up that control that we so much desire, creating insecurities and that is where trust (in Christ) becomes a problem and then we go back to the same 'ol instead of trusting God to do his will.We need to believe, obey and trust whatever God has planned for us. If not we are going to the same place making an illusion of our past and not moving forward to a new future. It’s like standing in the middle of the road not moving.We have desires, goals, hopes and dreams, but can we reach them on our own, in control of everything and repeating the past? How are you going to get the girlfriend or boyfriend of your dreams? Or even have a degree? Or be successful at work? Or have more money?  If you, first, still living in the past because you keep repeating the same mistakes, and second, do not realize that all you have, including your life, was given to you by God himself. You are nothing without God, but everything with him!

 Obedience is hard, it’s self-taught and is against all of what we want and desire. It’s doing something new, something that you have never thought of doing. But praying to God to help you be obedient will bring challenges; He will put you through tests. We should always pause and think: Can I resolve this on my own? Am I trying to control the situation? If so, how can I give up control? By accepting Gods will, letting him do his work no questions asked.

Change is part of growing, maybe you will have to lose the attitudes, fears, anger, control, desires, etc. but you have to trust that God is with you no matter what you're going thru. He knows all about it, but when it comes to the Lord we need to trust him fully and blindfolded. Its like going to the edge of a cliff and the only way out is to jump, the beautiful thing is that you are not going to die, well, the old you will, but he will be there to catch you and he will teach you how to fly.

Don’t hold on to your past so tightly that you'll miss the present and won't have anything to build on for the future. Be that grain of salt or that glimpse of light to this dark world. 

I love to be different, to be a Christian, that God has given me another chance to change, grow and do it better. He forgave all my sins and gave me new life, the only request is to give up control, obey, trust and have faith in him. Its like a job offer when signing a contract, instead of a paycheck, health benefits, money, maybe vacations and exhaustion for long hours of work, I will get happiness, joy, love, acceptance, health, forgiveness and the best part PEACE!