After reflecting on my quiet time from the last week I find myself feeling overwelmed! Ive been reading a lot on forgiveness and I'm finding that a subject as big as forgiveness really has the ability to wreck your heart. As I reflect on my time with God this week I felt an emotion I hadn't felt in years. An emotion I can only describe as being a wound that never completely healed. I kept thinking to myself how can I be reminded of this when I had forgave years ago. Or so I thought.... How is it that Jesus forgave us yet we can't seem to forgive others. Just like it says in Daniel "The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him." How does he make it look so easy! When in all reality forgiveness is so hard. Then I was reminded of something that Jeff said a few months back "forgiveness is something you have to do daily." Id never considered this. But how true is it having to relive the same hurts every day just in different ways. Its crazy to me how God is clearly telling us the key to forgiveness and we live like once is enough. It is our job everyday to wake up and choose. Choose if you are going to have a good day or bad. If we are going to let the past affect our future. To choose what offends us and what will lift us up. So this is what I'm learning each time I choose... I choose to forgive.... and each time I forgive the forgiveness comes that much easier!
"For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."
Colossians 1:13-14
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