Valuble

Forgiveness...

It's such a strong word. This isn't the word for the simple hurts and pains that your friends and family do to you. This is the word for when the option is revenge. Making them Hurt. Taking from them what they took from you. Showing them that you can assert yourself as a person and show that your not down and out just because they harmed you.

Forgivness is hard. It involves denying your own interests in view of the others. Forgivness is never easy. Forgivness is when you want every second to make that person hurt, or at least know how much you hurt, but instead you don't. You told them at one point that it hurt, and you told them you forgive them. So you put on the smile, act like its all alright, and live life. And eventually, it is alright. The bitterness fades, the anger subsides, and your friendship is restored.

(disclaimer: The above is not aimed at anyone in particular. I would defeat my own point if it was.)

I don't think Jesus Forgave us...

Let me explain. Looking at my above description of Forgivness, I don't think thats what God did. Yes, he did do all of the above, but his anger was great. his wrath was great. He couldn't hold that in like nothing happened. He couldn't change his character to associate with us and our sin. So instead of Forgiving us, he Redeemed us. He gave a piece of himself, and obliterated it on the cross. He was mutilated physically, Abandoned Spiritally, and broken emotionally. The entire man of Jesus was Abused and Beaten...

For you...

Don't you dare complain about your inadaquacies. Don't you dare say your not good enough. God made you, and he made you with a purpose. Yes you are fallen. Yes, you will make mistakes. But Christ took every one of your sins to hell with him when he died, locked them away, then rose again 3 days later to tell you about it. You are not doomed to repeat your mistakes. You are Free from sin by the Blood of Christ.

You are made valuble. Not because you are, but because the Lord of All thinks you are valuble. Guess what?

His opinion is the only one that counts....