Human affairs operate within some form of regimentation.
This is known and acceptable to the Christians.
Their acts, within and outside their religious circles, are guided by limits and boundaries.
More or less, this is a natural law that goes far outside the confines of any particular gathering, religious or not.
We are in one society or the other.
Forgiveness finds meaning in all human societies.
It is therefore a universal language, it being one of the natural regulations affecting the society's man.
But what we do or don't do in a situation that calls for forgiveness is what matters.
There are, from time to time, occasions when relationships turn toxic and dysfunctional.
Should you keep on keeping on when the one concerned is refractory? To love your enemy isn't the same thing as excusing his treatment.
In any sour relationship we do all we can to resist the abuse applying peace-soaked, divine methods.
This permits putting up healthy boundaries that will ensure you receive less of the abuse and invective, and if God approves, it may end up ending the relationship (with its hosts of difficulties where the abuser is a cousin, a nephew, a child, a parent, or a spouse).
The process of forgiveness doesn't recommend that you keep taking the roughshod that is being ridden over you; it doesn't say you must put up with an abusive situation.
But our Master Jesus demonstrated that forgiveness can be immediate as He forgave those who nailed Him on the cross - "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.
" As we press forward in our mission, God will grant us the grace to forgive those who wrong us, always and on the spot.
We're in a learning situation and whatever does not come now will later fall on our fund of divine enrichment.
God will work on that.
We can ask God for soft-heartedness because we may be inclined to harden our hearts in difficult relationships.
However, it does need to be stressed that to soften your heart is different than saying that you should keep taking the abuse or that you're to agree with the abuser's behavior.
Therefore, seek God's counsel and remind Him that His promise to you is to "instruct you and teach you in the way you should go.
" He'll never get tired of teaching you By Enamudu Ikhofua
This is known and acceptable to the Christians.
Their acts, within and outside their religious circles, are guided by limits and boundaries.
More or less, this is a natural law that goes far outside the confines of any particular gathering, religious or not.
We are in one society or the other.
Forgiveness finds meaning in all human societies.
It is therefore a universal language, it being one of the natural regulations affecting the society's man.
But what we do or don't do in a situation that calls for forgiveness is what matters.
There are, from time to time, occasions when relationships turn toxic and dysfunctional.
Should you keep on keeping on when the one concerned is refractory? To love your enemy isn't the same thing as excusing his treatment.
In any sour relationship we do all we can to resist the abuse applying peace-soaked, divine methods.
This permits putting up healthy boundaries that will ensure you receive less of the abuse and invective, and if God approves, it may end up ending the relationship (with its hosts of difficulties where the abuser is a cousin, a nephew, a child, a parent, or a spouse).
The process of forgiveness doesn't recommend that you keep taking the roughshod that is being ridden over you; it doesn't say you must put up with an abusive situation.
But our Master Jesus demonstrated that forgiveness can be immediate as He forgave those who nailed Him on the cross - "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.
" As we press forward in our mission, God will grant us the grace to forgive those who wrong us, always and on the spot.
We're in a learning situation and whatever does not come now will later fall on our fund of divine enrichment.
God will work on that.
We can ask God for soft-heartedness because we may be inclined to harden our hearts in difficult relationships.
However, it does need to be stressed that to soften your heart is different than saying that you should keep taking the abuse or that you're to agree with the abuser's behavior.
Therefore, seek God's counsel and remind Him that His promise to you is to "instruct you and teach you in the way you should go.
" He'll never get tired of teaching you By Enamudu Ikhofua