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I don't want what someone else did to me to determine what my life is going to be like.
Whatever wrong was done to any of us God saw it, it's like God was right there.
Revenge is like saying to God, I don't trust You.
Revenge doesn't satisfy it doesn't work.
Forgiving isn't always forgetting. Sometimes forgiving is remembering.
To forgive is to wish them well.
When I forgive and let them off the hook I'm really letting myself off the hook.
Jesus, You came to proclaim freedom to the captives. Freedom from every type of slavery. Freedom for those who have been held captive by their own pride. Their own unforgiveness, their own bitterness, their wounds. I can't control anything except myself. I can't prevent pain. But I can forgive it. Accept it. Set it down, let it go, walk on this earth free of burdens and grudges.
"Child," said the Voice, "I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own."
-The Horse and His Boy Chapter 11
I can't control if someone is going to betray me or not. I can't prevent someone from wounding me. But I can follow You. Abba You tell no one any story but his own. Whatever wrong was done to any of us God saw it, it's like God was right there. I trust Your judgement Jesus. I put my case in Your hands. I don't want what someone else did to me to determine what my life is going to be like. I want to let myself off the hook. I want to be set free!
Jesus set me free from my captivity.
I choose freedom. Help me choose freedom.
I don't want what someone else did to me to determine what my life is going to be like.
Whatever wrong was done to any of us God saw it, it's like God was right there.
Revenge is like saying to God, I don't trust You.
Revenge doesn't satisfy it doesn't work.
Forgiving isn't always forgetting. Sometimes forgiving is remembering.
To forgive is to wish them well.
When I forgive and let them off the hook I'm really letting myself off the hook.
Jesus, You came to proclaim freedom to the captives. Freedom from every type of slavery. Freedom for those who have been held captive by their own pride. Their own unforgiveness, their own bitterness, their wounds. I can't control anything except myself. I can't prevent pain. But I can forgive it. Accept it. Set it down, let it go, walk on this earth free of burdens and grudges.
"Child," said the Voice, "I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own."
-The Horse and His Boy Chapter 11
"As for you, follow me."
-Jesus
I can't control if someone is going to betray me or not. I can't prevent someone from wounding me. But I can follow You. Abba You tell no one any story but his own. Whatever wrong was done to any of us God saw it, it's like God was right there. I trust Your judgement Jesus. I put my case in Your hands. I don't want what someone else did to me to determine what my life is going to be like. I want to let myself off the hook. I want to be set free!
Jesus set me free from my captivity.
I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside. I do not mean that the ghosts may not wish to come out of hell, in the vague fashion wherein an envious man "wishes" to be happy: but they certainly do not will even the first preliminary stages of that self-abandonment through which alone the soul can reach any good. They enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded, and are therefore self-enslaved.Jesus, You hang there on the cross beckoning freedom and yet we still wish to remain in our own hell. The doors of hell are locked on the inside.
- C. S. Lewis
I choose freedom. Help me choose freedom.