THE WAITING ‘GAME’
July 7, 2022“A MIGHTY FORTRESS IS OUR GOD”
July 9, 2022Relationships are not easy. They do encounter turbulences often. They do breakdown many times. Both the turbulences and the breakdowns are not unusual…rather they can be accounted for being normal in any human relationship.
However, how one wishes to approach the problems, and with what attitude, will determine the outcome. If we wish to rebuild the broken relationship, we will take effective steps towards that. If our intention is to make permanent, the breakdown, then we will take steps towards that. Our actions, and not primarily our words, that will speak loud and clear about our position, and the underlying attitude.
Esau and Joseph both chose to be magnanimous and forgive their brothers.
ESAU – Genesis 33:4,8,9 – “4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept…8 And he [Esau] said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he [Jacob] said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord. 9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.”
JOSEPH – Genesis 45:7,15 – “7 And God sent me [Joseph] before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance…15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.”
Forgiveness has nothing to do with the other party. It is how we wish to respond to the hurt and the pain, that we are experiencing. IT SPEAKS ABOUT US. Also, our forgiveness may not repair, rectify and restore the broken relationship. Though it is sad, but it surely releases us into freedom and peace. This is a must for us, and our progress in life.
The pain in any broken relationship is always real. There are no two ways about it. However, choosing forgiveness over vengeance, is the only way for a peaceful and joyful life. The choice is ours to make. We can choose to be captives of our anger which soon will turn to hate, and will enslave us to itself. The results being pain, agony and self-destruction. Let us choose well..
