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I'm a christian I ask God to fill me with his love and help me to forgive people who are hard for me to forgive and I do it by faith not by my feelings. The more I do it the better my life gets.

2007-11-29 04:31:03 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

Yes I learned that I have to sometimes first do it as a statement by faith even though part of me does not want to because I feel hurt or angry but then when I do it and stick to it everytime it comes up in my thinking I start to feel better and free. I know that God is the one who deals out justice not me he says for me to pray for them and be good to them. I can focus on something else.

2007-11-29 04:45:48 · update #1

Hi,Message of love, The emotions of unforgiveness are not healthy emotions to carry. When forgiving some one that does not mean you do not acknowledge what has been done and that boundaries may need to be established for that person in your life.

2007-11-29 04:54:59 · update #2

Hi Megan, I know what you are talking about, I had a friend I had to forgive and it was hard but I had to start by faith. I had to end our friendship because she was not trustworthy and she was very mean and hurtful.I know that she had problems and she did not know how to be a friend. I believe God will make it up to me if I keep my faith and continue to forgive her when it comes up in my mind. That is how we grow and we have to be careful when we choose our friends.

2007-11-29 15:46:26 · update #3

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Everyday! Everyday!

And, you're right, some people are hard to love and difficult to forgive since they inflict such horrible pain on others but God did say to love them and forgive them. He did not give us a choice.

2007-11-29 04:35:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

I realize more everyday how all-encompassing, how amazingly fantastic God's love and mercy is for me.

Who am I?

I am dust and ashes. I am a detestable, loathsome creature in sin for which the very flames of Hell intensify. For the most part, I am even ignorant of how low and insignificant I have become in sin before a perfect, righteous, awesome God.

I am no better than a murderer, a liar, a thief, a haughty, arrogant atheist, or Christian hypocrite who blasphemies the Lord with his mouth in anger. Further, there is nothing I can do to right my relationship with God in my own works. I cannot walk enough old ladies across the street...I cannot give enough tithes...I cannot go to church enough...I cannot say 'I'm sorry' enough...to gain any favor with God.

However...

I also realize more everyday, how amazing God is to have been patient with me while in this loathsome state. I realize how kind He is to not have justly sent me to the flames of Hell as a child. I realize more everyday, how long-suffering He is to have waited for me.

He waited for me for about 14 years, agonizing over my disbelief and ungodliness. Then, at a Baptist revival I heard the Good News preached, and my spirit stirred within me. I had - and did - place my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ that night...and my life has never been the same.

I realize more everyday how Christ humbled Himself, lived a sinless life, and let Himself be unfairly crucified and die a sin-bearing death in order to pay the price for my sins before a perfect and just God. I realize how hard it is for me to simply pray for those I do not agree with...yet Jesus let blunt, wooden nails be driven into His hands and feet, and hang from them till death...a long, painful, humiliating, and undeserved death...for me.

I realize that before a righteous God, God did for me, what I could never do for myself. The shed blood of Christ was sufficient, before the Father. There is a price for sin, and Christ paid it for me.

Someday, I will realize even more how amazing the mercy of God is when the righteousness of Christ covers me and saves me from judgement. I will thankfully be missed when the condemned are thrown from the judgement into the lake of fire for eternity. I will miss the constant wailing and gnashing of teeth as the flames unceasingly seer, singe, and torment its captives. I will miss the resulting hopelessness, the unending pain, the knowledge that there is no saviour nor respite nor escape...ever. I, fortunately, will be proclaiming the Excellencies of God throughout the new heaven and new earth.

As I grow older, I realize this more everyday. Thank God!

2007-11-29 13:04:07 · answer #2 · answered by BowtiePasta 6 · 1 0

i have my beliefs in mercy and love people that i cant forgive if i dont ditch them for what they do and its hard to do that then i know thats god or karma way of saying forgive them As loving thi nieghbor i just try to be kind curtious and be a gentalman i can angry when people plan god for problem ive done it once and awhile but i apoligze in pray or in my had im not a big christian i hve those belief to myself but i go by them love and mercy

2007-11-29 18:10:09 · answer #3 · answered by Kenny B 5 · 1 0

So what you are saying is that you ignore and bury your real emotions and pretend you feel something that you don't...and your life gets better by doing this? Will you be still saying that when you develope depression or cancer from not dealing with your true emotions?

2007-11-29 12:41:33 · answer #4 · answered by MOL 3 · 1 0

i have a feeling you would very much enjoy A Course in Miracles. Forgivness is the only way out!

2007-11-29 12:36:54 · answer #5 · answered by nacsez 6 · 1 0

So your faith is separate from your feelings? This just gets more confusing.

And religious faith is not good enough, since faith is what lead men to fly planes into buildings.

2007-11-29 12:36:40 · answer #6 · answered by neil s 7 · 1 0

Wow.... Thanks, seriously.... I've had a really bad week and this is just what I needed to hear... I've got to love and forgive people even when they hurt me.. My best friend in the entire world, stabbed me in the nack this week, and she now she kind of avoids me, but acts like its me acting wierd.. It infuriates me so much, and I do love her to death and I just wish she cared about me enough not to go behind my back and screw me over....

Thanks again, for helping this week..

God Bless you,
Megan..

2007-11-29 13:37:04 · answer #7 · answered by megan renea™ 3 · 1 0

Thanks. My boyfriend finally admitted something that happened awhile back while we were "talking" but not dating. I hate that it happened and I was really upset about it so I suppose I need to forgive him and move on and let God handle the rest.

2007-11-29 17:48:31 · answer #8 · answered by BluhBluh 7 · 1 0

Yeah for you! :-)

Sometimes I don't understand God's mercy and love, but I do try to live in it.

2007-11-29 12:36:05 · answer #9 · answered by Scooterette1! 4 · 1 0

i try to do that

not Christian though, and I don't want to be one either

i guess I don't understand them things

I DO try to always be nice though, and to forgive

2007-11-29 12:37:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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