St.
Luke 17:3 -4 records the words of Jesus, “Take heed to yourselves: If thy
brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times
in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou
shalt forgive him.” Wow! The words of Jesus often trouble us because,
most of us do not like conflict so we fail to go to our brother directly and
rebuke him (or her) when he or she trespasses (commits an offence) against
us. It is much easier to do the wrong
thing and go to someone else and talk to them about the offence against us than
it is to go directly to the offender.
Jesus said to rebuke (epitimao
2008) i.e. to censure or admonish the one who committed the offense.
If
you think the first part of what Jesus said to do is difficult to understand,
how about the second part? Jesus very succinctly
stated, “Forgive him.” When I read this
the other day I decided to look up the word aphiemi
(863) to make sure it meant forgive.
Sure enough it means: let go, disregard, keep no longer, leave behind,
and of course forgive! If you think the first and second
parts of the admonishment that Jesus gave are hard to understand, how about the
third part? Jesus told His disciples to
keep on forgiving even after many offences.
Musicians
are very emotional people. They get hurt
very easily because they are sensitive people.
It is no wonder that they get hurt when someone actually does something
to them that is definitely wrong.
However, it is never right to fester over something that someone else
has done which is wrong. You may be
right about the situation, but if you do not forgive, the offender you are in
the wrong.
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