Sunday, 13 January 2013

Extending forgiveness

It has become slightly inconvenient for me to walk around the house due to the injuries. I have become a victim of a road accident involving cyclists. Yes, my life has been affected and things that I have been able to do just require slightly more effort. It's painful. As I reflect on what I have been reading about forgiveness, I have no grounds to not forgive the driver who caused all these wounds and my broken bike. It is hard to forgive looking at the state that I am in, but it is even harder to forgive who I actually am. 

I have received forgiveness through the blood of Jesus despite being a wretched sinner. The man who knocked me down is a sinner too, and I am no better than him. We are both in need of forgiveness of our sins. As God has forgiven me for such a great crime I have committed against Him, forgiving the man now seems trivial. I have forgiven him.

Having learnt to forgive recently, I checked my mental account of the sins that were committed against me for various reasons. There were not many and I actually had some difficulty trying to find them. Thank God for allowing me to understand forgiveness, even though I believe there is more to it than what I already know. 

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