I finally got something for Valentines Day - but it is from someone that i don’t like. Someone that i never want to see ever again.
I told them 4 months ago that i didn’t want to see them & i have not phoned since then. The only time i saw him all i said was hello.
I just want this person to leave me alone.
Laarii:
I looked at your blog, so I think I understand why you’re angry and fuming at this guy. I would be pretty angry myself.
I’ve got a couple of people like that in my own like right now, and they’re not easy to deal with. In fact, I spent over an hour talking the ear off one of my friends about one of them earlier today. It was an emotional conversation.
So, I can understand how you feel, but I can’t endorse it or condone it. I can’t pray for you to be bitter or for this guy to disappear not unless he’s been violent has threatened violence.
Our Lord Jesus is pretty clear about what we have to do, even though it may end up being pretty painful and uncomfortable. It’s right there in the Lord’s Prayer, “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors,” and in
The Parable of the Mercilous Servant (
Matt 18:21-34) where HE described just how MASSIVE our sins are that HE has forgiven in comparison to the miniscule sins of our brothers we are being asked to forgive.
Can you say that you’ve forgiven this person for what he did to you, or that you’re harboring a grudge and nursing a “root of bitterness”?
Remember that even those who persecuted the Early Church wereblown away by, “Look at how those Christians love one another!”
Could you say that someone reading this thread or watching your actions around this gentleman could have caue to say that, or would they have cause to say comehting unflattering out our Lord and HIS Church?
Remember, we are often all unbelievers see of our Lord and HIS Church?
Is this really how you want our Lord to be represented?
Your Brother in Christ, Michael
