#biblegram

If someone hurts you, the Bible instructs is to forgive, as our Heavenly Father has forgiven us.

But that doesn’t mean it happens overnight. There is no timeline for healing.

Give yourself grace as you wrestle through the process of forgiveness.

You’re human. You’re allowed to have feelings.

Sometimes it’s one step forward and two steps back.

On our own strength, it’s nearly impossible to fully forgive.

But by the power of the Holy Spirit, we are empowered to allow those wounds to heal.

Forgiveness doesn’t mean forgetting. It’s important to acknowledge the act that hurt us, as well as the ways that act impacted us — bring it to the feet of Jesus.

Grieve what you lost or suffered.

Whenever I try not to sin real hard, I often end up in a lose-lose situation where I end up sinning anyways and getting convicted for it, thus leading me to live in perpetual learnt helplessness. Despite wanting to do the right thing, despite wanting not to sin, I still sin and there's really no end to it. If I try seeking social support on something like Facebook, I get prevented from it, even when I feel terrible from being convicted. I even think feel-good Christianity is a sham, given that even when I do rely on God, sometimes if I sin I often wound up feeling low a lot.

There's no end to my sins, no matter how hard I try not to sin. It's never going to end until I try, that even if you say that you can try not to sin, but it's going to be hard. It's hard because sin is inherent to humanity, even if we try our best, we still fail and anger God. God is not the easy to please genie that some Christians make him out to be, he actually acts more like a proverbial Jewish mother in how he deals with his children: angry, demanding and tough. That's also how he acts in the Bible and in our personal lives, no amount of sentimental feel-good nonsense is going to sugarcoat this.

I remember a video saying that the Devil has a way of softening the Bible's stance on things, to the point where feel-good Christianity with the serene God exists to soften the Bible and God's actual personality. I even have a hard time believin that God is calm when more often than not from my experience, he tends to be easily exasperated with us. If you grieve the Spirit, you also exasperate the Spirit. So you wound up angering God, despite the good you try to do. If faith is impossible without doing right, then he's going to be this hard to please at times because he demands better from us.

This isn't the come as you are religion people make it out to be, it's more of a be better than you are faith regarding human nature. It's all about dying to self, denying the self and so on, it's not a faith where you can come as you are all the time. Rather God expects you to clean up your act if you sin, even when you try to rely on him. This is not the pleasant, easy to please entity Christians make him out to be. Rather this is the angry, disciplinary tough type who judges and condemns his children on very bad days, angrier than any Greek god will ever be.

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