Making amends with those we have hurt is a major part of our walk in The Way. One can hardly overestimate the importance of making amends. Unfortunately, most of us under-estimate the power that this discipline has to change our attitude toward GOD The FATHER, others, and even life itself.
When you set out to make amends, you make a proposal for a new life. You begin to find it because seeking Forgiveness and Mercy from those you have hurt prompts you to show Mercy and Forgiveness to those who have hurt you. You cannot hate and make amends at the same time, not genuinely anyways.
Confessing and re-examining our wrongs can bring the new life we need to find the Freedom that we seek. It can bring us Spiritual understanding and also develop Spiritual strength. We find ourselves becoming like YESHUA, JESUS The CHRIST. We find our true identity, as GOD Almighty Created and intended, as it becomes ever more clear. We experience the Joy that comes from doing GOD’S Will. We become whole men and whole women rather than fragmented persons. We come clean with The FATHER and with others and find that it feels wonderfully amazing and freeing!
Any attitudes of unwillingness or reservation in making amends block the Blessing that HE wants to pour out on us. We feel guilty and discontented and this fills us with defensiveness and anger. These are painful emotions and we find they bring temptation to turn back to the old empty ways in a foolish attempt to numb the pain our unfaithfulness is causing.
We must choose to either live with the guilt, shame and anger that unresolved wrongs involve, or the Peace, Joy and Love that making amends can bring. To choose the former is to choose continued bondage but to choose to work it Faithfully and thoroughly is to choose Freedom. What will you choose?
Dear FATHER, Please help me to remember that YOUR Word calls me to deny self, to take up my cross, and to follow The CHRIST. That does not sound easy. It will not be easy. It is, however, the way to health and wholeness. May I walk it now and always and enjoy the Blessings that flow from such a life. Thank YOU, YAHWEH, GOD Almighty, for the many Blessings YOU so generously pour out on each of us every single moment of every single day. I Praise YOU! I Glorify YOU! I Pray to YOU, in The Precious Name of YESHUA, JESUS The CHRIST. Amen.
Reading 1 Samuel 7:2-17...
When you set out to make amends, you make a proposal for a new life. You begin to find it because seeking Forgiveness and Mercy from those you have hurt prompts you to show Mercy and Forgiveness to those who have hurt you. You cannot hate and make amends at the same time, not genuinely anyways.
Confessing and re-examining our wrongs can bring the new life we need to find the Freedom that we seek. It can bring us Spiritual understanding and also develop Spiritual strength. We find ourselves becoming like YESHUA, JESUS The CHRIST. We find our true identity, as GOD Almighty Created and intended, as it becomes ever more clear. We experience the Joy that comes from doing GOD’S Will. We become whole men and whole women rather than fragmented persons. We come clean with The FATHER and with others and find that it feels wonderfully amazing and freeing!
Any attitudes of unwillingness or reservation in making amends block the Blessing that HE wants to pour out on us. We feel guilty and discontented and this fills us with defensiveness and anger. These are painful emotions and we find they bring temptation to turn back to the old empty ways in a foolish attempt to numb the pain our unfaithfulness is causing.
We must choose to either live with the guilt, shame and anger that unresolved wrongs involve, or the Peace, Joy and Love that making amends can bring. To choose the former is to choose continued bondage but to choose to work it Faithfully and thoroughly is to choose Freedom. What will you choose?
Dear FATHER, Please help me to remember that YOUR Word calls me to deny self, to take up my cross, and to follow The CHRIST. That does not sound easy. It will not be easy. It is, however, the way to health and wholeness. May I walk it now and always and enjoy the Blessings that flow from such a life. Thank YOU, YAHWEH, GOD Almighty, for the many Blessings YOU so generously pour out on each of us every single moment of every single day. I Praise YOU! I Glorify YOU! I Pray to YOU, in The Precious Name of YESHUA, JESUS The CHRIST. Amen.
Reading 1 Samuel 7:2-17...