5 Extremely Potent Motivations For Forgiving Any Offense--Counting The Ones The Lord Puts Into Action

Anytime we have a really tough job it makes a huge difference if we have plenty of motivation to stick with it till it is finished.

Forgiveness is like that. Our sharp thoughts can absolutely stick to us just like glue. It hurts to remember previous injustices. It requires time and perseverance in order to get free. We try to get off the hook, demanding, "Why should I forgive?".

Let all these persuasive God-given reasons come to your deliverance!

1) Your Own Freedom.

Holding on to angry thoughts only ensures we shall go on being a martyr of the injustice of things of the past! We keep captive our heart behind barriers of hatred and hard feelings, then say to our betrayer, "You made this happen to me!".

The plain truth is no one has the ability to seal your heart up but you. No one has the ability to stick injury in and keep it in place. Nobody can cause suffering which your powerful Lord is unable to overcome, making "all things" become servants of your good.

When we decide to accept the way out Jesus makes available, then we will definitely take on the assigned task of turning over to God all of the offense and injury which others have already caused us. That is actually what our Lord urges us to do for the sake of our inner healing. This is what our Savior did for us.

2) Their Spiritual Blindness.

Have you "heard" yourself thinking, "How could they do that? They knew clearly just what they were doing!"

That's not how Jesus views it. While He was being crucified by His foes Jesus cried out, "Father, forgive them. They don't know what they are doing." Surely, if this motivation worked for Jesus, it must be based on truth and it will work for us also.

As set forth in the Bible the individual who does wrong has been deceived by an invisible foe. No one that sins sees what they are actually doing in the complete light of God's perspective or the untrammeled recognition of how they are being taken advantage of by their personal enemy!

3) Your Ignorance Of The Truth.

As soon as we mount up in angry judgments, we eventually become short-sighted and forget all about the enormity of our own misdoing. We harden against them saying, "I would never dream of doing that!" This causes it to be very hard to release our hearts.

Our Lord has a "way of liberation" from these hard judgments. He reminds us that we can do nothing good without Him and that it is solely by His goodness that we are set free from our sins.

Simply let the memory of your sins (of attitude, word or deed) recover your truer understanding. All of us are sinners in immense need of goodness and forgiveness.

Next take it one step farther. Jesus sets side by side the unmerciful judgment in our eye to a shaft and the offender's deed to a splinter. In our viewpoint we effortlessly pardon our own bitter judgments, nevertheless in Jesus' sight our unforgiveness is the greater error.

4) Empathy For Them.

Here is an irrefutable reality: The individual who mistreated you or your loved one did not enter the world with those plans as their goal. That person first came to the earth as an infant wishing merely to be nuzzled, cherished and nourished. Something happened.

An incursion via a hidden villain pierced their purity and started carrying them down the darkened, twisted hallways of self survival. They were "acting out" of their own injury . Haven't you ?

Without a doubt, they are responsible for their misguided responses. Nevertheless, their Savior always sees their hidden wounds and preserves empathy in His heart for them, even as He works to bring correction. Aren't you grateful Jesus is that way with you?

5) The The Reward Due to Jesus.

Let's "get down to brass tacks" for this last motivation. That person you despise and condemn is a person for whom Jesus suffered a terrible death to cover his or her wickedness. Jesus desires that person in heaven with Him!

Our lack of mercy is the exact opposite of what Jesus undertook by accepting the cross. Unforgiveness is in reality the temper of the enemy in us, not the nature of our new life in Christ.

When we have been greatly hurt, then we are in the very best possible situation to pray with genuine authority toward the freeing of that individual from a pitfall of the wicked one-- their archenemy and ours. We participate with Jesus on the mercy seat interceding with Him!

Why should you forgive? Reclaim your spiritual health, inner peace and joy with the help of these five powerful motivations. They have been sent to us from a heavenly point of view which is always better than ours.

Let them power you up to give the wrong done, the wounded feelings and the individual to God and to trust Him with it all.

That is what forgiveness is--that and the beautiful experience of fresh grace and a resurrected life.

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