Take it from someone who knows

Our visiting preacher preached last night a message that really stuck a cord with me. Last week was TERRIBLE! But something Adam said last night made me think. He quoted Hebrews12:3 “For consider him that endured much contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.” Adam hit the nail in the head when he said that God knows all about giving without expecting anything in return. He knows all about forgiving those who don’t ask for forgiveness. I haven’t gone through anything compared to the martyrs of the faith. I haven’t gone through anything that God himself hasn’t gone through and that he wasn’t there holding my hand through it all.

The biggest thing that struck me is that I need to forgive the people who I am bitter against to salvage my own Christian life. There is a situation between a family and mine that I have been so bitter about. I told lies years ago and they covered for me. When the truth came out, the family never would come clean about it, and still are lying and say they never knew anything. So my family just cut all ties with them. I have been so angry, but I even wrote in my Bible when Adam said that we need to forgive those who don’t even ask, I wrote: Forgive and pray for Chris and Melissa. They need my prayers and forgiveness, not my judgment.