When we really talk about real faith, we do not talk about our needs and wants (e.g. I have faith that I will have my own house in the next 5 years). When we really talk about real faith, it always talk about God's divine plan to bring us back to His blueprint regarding the real men and women of God. Real faith talks about how much God truly loves us to a point where He sent His own beloved Son to a slaughterhouse to be killed by His own ungrateful creation (John 3:16).
When we learn to see this world not from our needs and wants, but from His needs and wants, we start to feel what He feels. We start to consider and re-prioritize our goals in life. It's no longer about us, but it's all about Jesus and His Kingdom. Our life change because our mind change. Our mind change because the way we see things are also change, influenced by His thoughts, His desires, and His values and conviction (Romans 12:2)
Jesus has proven that a man/woman of God has the inner capacity to unleash the true forgiveness in their hearts, no matter how hard and painful the wrongdoings in our lives. Jesus has proven this through the cross where He truly sacrifice Himself for sinners like us. God's children that truly understand the meaning of the cross in their lives, will start to believe that no matter how painful the wrongdoings in our hearts, we believe that, all sins have been forgiven and that there is no sin committed by human that cannot be forgiven.
The world teaches us that the we need to forgive others so that it would bring peace to our hearts and freed us from unnecessary pain, sufferings, and depression. The focus is always about us and our lives.
However, Jesus taught us that the reason why we need to forgive is because of the cross. As stated in the Lord's prayer, God will forgive us IF we forgive others too (Mat 6:12). We forgive others because God has forgiven us unconditionally. True Faith will produces True Forgiveness. By believing wholeheartedly that we are called to become Christ-like, we starts to see that no wrongdoings is big enough that cannot be forgiven, because Jesus has forgiven all sins. We forgive because we want to become more like Christ and through faith He will enable us to work on our salvation and fulfill His ultimate plan for us. The focus is no longer about us, but it is about Jesus and His Kingdom.
It's time to redefine our paradigm about forgiveness.
- JH -
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