AFTER ALL IS SAID AND DONE WHAT’S NEXT

After all the accusations what’s next? After you've cried your heart out because you have been mocked, hated, envied, insulted etc, what’s next?
Life is full of ups and downs. Nobody lives on an island. Everybody has to live with somebody somewhere sometime at a certain place. No matter what happens to us in our various stages in life, it’s our reaction and approach towards these happenings that determines our next stage in life, whether it will be a positive or negative process.
For instance, let's look at the issue of forgiveness. Forgiving someone isn’t for their good but yours. When you forgive it is you who gets that psychological freedom to operate with or without the presence of the offender.

Forgiving others may seem to be a choice, and in a sense it is a choice but God has been very clear about forgiveness. He has given us specific direction in numerous Scriptures, all of which can be summed up in just one word -- forgive! God's Word says, "And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins" (Mark 11:25). "Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven" (Luke 6:37).

God is saying that it is in our own best interest to forgive! He is not talking about what is in the best interest of the person who needs to be forgiven. We are the ones God is trying to protect. We are the ones who receive the most benefit from forgiveness, not the other person. A spirit of unforgiveness complicates and compromises our daily walk with God. Forgiving others releases us from anger and allows us to receive the healing we need. The whole reason God has given us specific directions is because He does not want anything to stand between us and Him. God's love for us is beyond our comprehension. Forgiving others spares us from the consequences of living out of an unforgiving heart.

Forgiving others does not carry with it a single decision that we need to ponder. God has not qualified one sin as being more grievous to Him than another and He has not qualified one sin committed against us as warranting forgiveness and another not. For example, God is not saying that if a person lies to you or steals from you, you should forgive him, but if someone abuses or harms your child, you can hold them in unforgiveness. He is saying we should forgive everyone, always, and do it immediately.
So you see your next level, after all is said and done, depends on you and no one else and how you handle the whole situation.

Let us learn to forgive so we can easily access our next level. May GOD bless and keep us from falling. Amen.
I love you but JESUS loves you more

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