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I have a friend going thru a court hearing today…. no details… but I found this website, talks about forgiveness…Here’s my message to them and the website link and part of the text…

Ah, ……, prayers for today, the storm passed, the sun is out….try to forgive the anger and rage…. Ask God to forgive … If they can’t see their ways, that’s up to God to correct… You have to forgive… It’s hard… Those Amish parents whose kids were killed by that shooter forgave the shooter right away, which is what God wants us to do, forgive… Forgive and ask for forgiveness… It’s the way to true peace… May God hold you tight in His loving arms so you can feel peace.

I was reading about forgiveness, from this website http://www.patheos.com/…/top-7-bible-verses-about-forgiven…/

Matthew 6:14-15 “For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”

” The Biblical Definition of Forgiveness:
What the Bible defines as forgiveness is much broader and more comprehensive than what the world believes. In Matthew 6:14 Jesus shows us what forgiveness really is: “For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.” The Greek word for forgive is “aphiēmi” which means “to send away,” to “depart,” or “to yield up” which means you send away from ever being in the presence of either party. That means that if my brother offends me and I forgive him, then I “send away” the offense from myself and from him so that it is never brought up again. If a person keeps bringing the same offense up then they have never really sent it away or they haven’t truly forgiven you. True biblical and godly forgiveness is this; “God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom 5:8) and “while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life” (Rom 5:10)…

 

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Even in the darkest hour the cross still shines

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Question, 23JUN:
The spirit, of all people, led Jesus into the desert to be tempted…. Why? To test Jesus? To show us we are able to resist temptations? Or just to give the devil some grief? Or?

And Jesus knew this ahead of time, right? Hmmmm….

I wonder about God testing vs God letting you be tested… I would think the latter… Many people blame God for the temptations, but I don’t think so…

I bet He knew that we would have to find similarities to our own lives in order to follow Him and He to show us that He understands our grief…

Matthew 4:1-11 New International Version (NIV)
Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness
4 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted[a] by the devil. 2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”