November 28, 2011
“bearing with one another, and forgiving one another; even as Christ forgave you, so you must also do.”
As Christians we are supposed to settle all matters among ourselves without making it public as there is always possibility of marring someone’s reputation. We are human and there will be issues that arise amongst a body of believers, and it seems like Paul addresses that in just about every one of his’ epistles. Instead of following through and seeking official judgment on a wrongdoing from a court or other form of resolving an issue, we are instructed to simply just forgive those just as Christ did with us. I’m sure the punishment that Christ took for us is incomparable to the minute issue that someone flippantly dissed your coffee making skills. Unfortunately for some unknown reason, this is probably the one of the harder things to do for humans. Natural inclination when wronged is for us to immediately take whatever actions we deem necessary to make the perpetrator pay. Instead we need to look to the cross and remember what Jesus did for us so that we might have the freedom to do it for another.
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