Can You Forgive Me?
While at work yesterday this thought came to mind.
December of 2018 there was a posting on FaceBook of a video of a man and a woman that were loading a TV set into their car. The person posting the video said that the two people were stealing the TV from outside of a thrift store after hours. The person who was posting this asked if anyone knew who the thieves were?
Automatically people started to comment that these two people in the video should be arrested and that they were the "scum" of the earth. Everyone including myself were judging this man and woman before knowing the "whole truth". We were just going by what was said by the person who was posting the video and what we could see was happening.
But we only had one side of the story.
One of my family members looked at this post from a different perspective, they didn't see a thief, they saw someone who might need extra help during the Holiday season.
By no means is stealing a right thing to do, but what I think my family member saw was the way Jesus want's us to see each other.
My family member saw this couple and chose not to follow the "crowd/mob" and convict these people with a judgement that we did not have the right to give.
Instead they showed forgiveness and passion for their sin.
My question now is to that family member, were you really showing forgiveness or were you just trying to be "different"?
What if I were to tell you that I have done many things wrong in my past. Yes, I might have even bragged about doing them in the past but it doesn't mean that they define who I am today.
But since I was not alone during this "sin" there were other's who still bring it up sometimes.
I have asked the Lord to forgive me of my sins and to come into my life. Now I am a "Born Again Christian" but not all that see me now know this because of my past still haunts me.
I have started a new life with a wife and family that I love to death. I have taken on a new role in life with more responsibility, and less pay.
I'm trying to help people with their everyday lives and there are some that I can call friends but many who still see the man I once was and can't get past my past.
So I ask you my "Family Member" are you truly like the person who I saw last December taking up for the couple that was "Tagged" as thieves.
Would you forgive me and accept me for who I am today?
And not listen to the "world" as they keep bringing up my past and spreading lies about me.
Would you "forgive" me not knowing everything about my past and see me as your "brother in Christ"?
I ask that you don't judge me because of what you might have seen or heard, things that other people keep bringing up or making up.
I ask you to open your heart to see Christ in me, and to open your eyes to see how the "world" is trying to destroy me.
I ask you to forgive the man that I have just described for this man is not me your brother but rather a man that is in your life no matter if you want him to be or not.
I need you to forgive me for writing this out in this form.
I am writing what I feel the Lord is telling me to write.
The man that is described above is one of God's children a "brother" to you and I.
I feel that I could reach out my hand to shake his and he would take my hand and pull me in close for a "Manly Hug".
This man has changed my life for the better and I support him fully.
This man is our President Donald J Trump.
Matthew 7:5 (KJV) Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
While at work yesterday a thought came to mind about how the "People of the world" see each other.
Do they look at each other the way Jesus looks at us?
We are to be "Christ like" according to the Bible,
Jesus loves his children, but hates "sin".
He'll forgive us of our sins if we ask him.
But this doesn't mean that we will be perfect or are perfect in anyway.
We are to be "Christ like" not Christ himself.
We are to forgive one another and not judge someone for their sins.
We all have a "Past", how many of you have sinned?
We all have sinned and we all sin everyday many times for the same sin time and time again.
Some sins are called an addiction and no matter how we try to stop doing this sin, we stumble and fall and do it again.
Do not look at someone else's sin and think that theirs is much worse than yours and therefore you must be a better person. It doesn't work that way, sin is sin.
If you do not have a personal relationship with Jesus then it doesn't matter how much wrong or right that you have done in your life because when you die and we all will someday, do you want to go to Heaven or Hell?
If your answer is Hell where you will be tormented forever then do nothing here and now.
But if your answer is Heaven, then ask the Lord Jesus to forgive you of your sins and ask him to come into your heart and be your savior.
You do not need to be in a "Church" to ask this of him. You can ask him right now wherever you may be sitting or standing. You can ask in the silence of your mind or you can cry out to him. Jesus hears our calls no matter how loud they may be.
After accepting Jesus you'll feel his Holy Spirit come and fill your soul. You may live in a "High Feeling" life style for a while. But the devil will still try and tell you that you are the same person as before and you may even "slip" and say or do something that makes you think that you are no good.
Remember, we all sin. Even the Pastor of the church commits sin everyday.
No human is perfect in Gods eye, only Jesus.
And you nor I are not God, so we should not act like it, we need to forgive and love one another no matter what each of us do or say.
Luke 6:42 (NKJV) Or how can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the plank that is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother's eye.
Buzz 05/15/19
