Burn
Have you ever heard the saying "Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on me"?
I just finished Genesis today (Hooray!), and I am left pondering the significance of Joseph's forgiveness of his brothers for throwing him into a pit and allowing him to be made a slave. The Daily Walk for today asks: Am I a forgiving person? Am I quick to forget offenses against me? It says that true forgiveness means that you totally put the wrong suffered unto you out of your mind. That's what God does after all. I thought I was a forgiving person, but now I'm having trouble with this whole forgiveness concept. I feel like if I forgive and forget, I will be abused. I don't want to be abused. But if that's what it takes, I guess that's what I need to do. If that's what it takes to live for God, that's what I will do. I have a feeling I'll be thinking about this for the next few days.
I just finished Genesis today (Hooray!), and I am left pondering the significance of Joseph's forgiveness of his brothers for throwing him into a pit and allowing him to be made a slave. The Daily Walk for today asks: Am I a forgiving person? Am I quick to forget offenses against me? It says that true forgiveness means that you totally put the wrong suffered unto you out of your mind. That's what God does after all. I thought I was a forgiving person, but now I'm having trouble with this whole forgiveness concept. I feel like if I forgive and forget, I will be abused. I don't want to be abused. But if that's what it takes, I guess that's what I need to do. If that's what it takes to live for God, that's what I will do. I have a feeling I'll be thinking about this for the next few days.
posted by It is Well with My Soul at 6:32 PM
1 Comments:
there's a mexican saying: -Dios me hizo manso, no menso-. that means that God made me humble, but not stupid. i see that as christians we are called to turn the other cheek, but God gave us intelligence to know when to say -enough-. being humble does not mean being stupid.
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