IN OUR ANCHOR SCRIPTURE , Peter asked the Lord if there is a limit to the number of times one should forgive an erring brother. Jesus’ answer was swift in coming: there is none.
It’s a privilege to have a brother in the first place. His offending you is simply the flip side of his good nature. The gift of a brother is similar to the gift of a new day. Twelve hours of it are sunny and bright while the second twelve are covered by pitch-darkness. Both are blessings. Only a child would not recognize that.
Similarly, when your spouse offends you, remember that it’s a high privilege to have a Spouse in the first place and that their offenses only show the flip side of their good nature. And what are you to do? It’s to demonstrate the God-nature or the godliness in you by being magnanimous enough to graciously forgive them. It’s a demonstration of large heartedness to forgive.
A lot of times, the offences of our loved ones are simple tests to prove how much of the nature of God we have “acquired” or how godly we have actually become. If you can’t forgive, then you’re an offender and not any different from your mate whom you’re trying to crucify.
In very many marriages, the cause of disharmony and bitterness is traceable to the refusal of Spouses to forgive offenses and little wrongs. Such behaviour easily gives you away as a small minded individual who has forgotten that you also committ trespasses and need God’s forgiveness.
Sometime ago, a Servant of God told of how he tried to make peace between spouses who were at war with each other yet lived under the same roof and were active in church. In a great effort to see that peace returned to that union he went on his knees and entreated them to make peace with each other and let bygones be bygones but they bluntly refused. Let’s pause and think about it. The Senior Pastor of your Church goes down on his knees to see that you and your mate reconcile and you discountenance his intervention and his meekness and refuse to heed his voice? Yet you would come to church, smile, dance and mix with other members of the congregation yet you’d go back home to continue in enmity with each other. Exactly where do you think you are going? God’s Heaven???
One of the very ugly sinful conditions mentioned in Romans 1 is the state where one is IMPLACABLE. Sadly, this is the heart condition of some spouses. To be implacable means that one is unappeasable. It means they have such a strong feeling of hostility that nothing and no one can pacify them except they make up their mind to accept reconciliation on their own terms. For instance, I’ve heard of a housewife who would not forgive her husband’s errors, even minor mistakes, no matter his pleadings and entreaties until he goes to the market and buys her a brand new cloth. Yet she knew all too well that her man was a poor fellow who ekks a living from petty fishing.
Dear Reader, if you’re stone-hearted then you need to pause and consider your ways. Having a stone heart is not for your good at all. Stone hearted people don’t end well. A good example is Pharoah who drowned in the Red Sea with his Army. But you can repent of your Sins today and ask Jesus Christ to come into your life and give you a heart of flesh, so that you’ll become a child of God.
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Are there any unresolved quarrels, misunderstanding or differences between you and your spouse right now? Please, settle them before going to bed tonight. You never can tell when Death will come calling.
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