One Month to Live – Day 10 – Ocean

Today’s lesson is all about a topic none of us like to address – forgiveness. We are pressed down because we fail to deal with the issues in our relationships.  We pretend that our sins, faults and failures will somehow magically disappear.  That we will in some way just move past it but it doesn’t happen.  It eats us like a cancer and we become bitter and will struggle to find freedom.  Jesus commands us to forgive.  “Forgive as the Lord forgave you” is what Paul writes in Colossians.   It is because our survival depends on it.  Scripture teaches us that we should not carry anger more than 24 hours – we need to make things right.  That is because it will quickly morph into bitterness.  We sometimes believe if we hold on we can punish the other person but that is never the case.  To forgive is to set a prisoner free and the prisoner is you.  It is for our own sake we need to forgive.  It is God’s plan and we need to get on board.  So if you have someone you are holding a grudge against thinking you are in control, you are missing it completely.  God wants us to set them free and as we do we find our own freedom.