How to Handle Negative Feelings
When Wronged by Someone Else
recently received an email from someone
asking how can a Christian really handle negative feelings
and emotions when wronged by someone else - especially if
the wrong is vicious and nasty.
The Bible tells us that God is asking
all of His people to live on a higher level than the
nonbeliever. The Bible tells us to forgive those who trespass
against us, to turn the other cheek if warranted, to love our
enemies, and to do good to those who will deliberately hurt
us.
God is so insistent on us being able to forgive those who
will hurt us, that He tells us that He will not even hear our
prayers if we are holding any unforgiveness toward anyone
else.
However, as we all know through real life experiences, all
of the above principles are easier said than actually done. How
do you handle negative feelings such as anger, bitterness, the
desire to seek revenge, and sometimes outright hate towards
someone who has viciously wronged you?
How do you handle and get a grip on these types of negative
feelings and emotions when:
- Some drunk driver has just killed your son or your
spouse
- Someone has raped or sexually abused you
- Someone has just abducted and killed your daughter
or son
- Your husband has been physically abusing you for
years
- Some scam artist has just stolen all of your life’s
savings
- You have just found out that your spouse has been
cheating on you
All of the above scenarios are torpedo shots that can knock
anyone of us straight to the ground. However, how we handle
these adversities and how we bounce back from them will
determine the quality of our lives with what
time we still have left.
If you do not get a grip on these negative emotions when
they start to try and settle on the inside of you as a result
of a vicious wrong - then those negative emotions will start to
eat you up alive the same way cancer will eat and ravage a
human body. These negative emotions will steal most, if not all
of your joy, love, and peace that you have obtained as a result
of your close walk with the Lord.
Some Christians will even lose their faith or their close
personal relationship with God as a result of taking this kind
of serious hit. They get mad at God. They start questioning
God. How could He allow this wrong to occur? Why didn't He
protect them?
When I first made the discovery that the Holy Spirit is
alive and well on the inside of each believer and that it was
His job to transmit knowledge to us, I started tapping in and
asking questions on many different topics and issues.
The Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit will "teach us
all things" and "guide us into all truth." The Holy
Spirit can and will communicate to those who will seek after
His knowledge.
I went directly to God the Father on all of the above and
asked Him - how can someone possibly get a grip on some of the
above scenarios where some of these attacks are so vicious and
so evil? How can you ever forgive someone who has just killed a
close loved one, much less ever get over the anger, wrath, and
bitterness that will settle in on you as a result of this type
of extreme trauma?
I believe the Lord has given me very good insight and bottom
line answer on this dilemma. Again, this answer came in the
form of a one-two punch - it has two sides to it.
In order to be able to truly forgive someone and to be able
to truly let them go into hands of God where you can get an
"inner healing" on all of the negative emotions that may
have built up in you over the course of time, there are two
things that each Christian must get a firm and solid grasp on.
These two principles are as follows.
1. The Big Picture
The first thing each Christian must "realize and
see" is what I call the big picture. You first have to
step away from your problem and see things for the way they
really are.
Bottom line - the time that we will all spend on this earth
is just a blink of an eye compared to the time that we will all
be spending in eternity once we die and cross over. Heaven is
for eternity - our life on this earth is just for a very brief
moment compared to the eternal time frame that is operating up
in heaven.
The first thing that each Christian must get a
hold of when being seriously wronged by someone else in
this life is that the person who has viciously wronged you
will have to come before God Almighty Himself for a
personal judgment once he dies and crosses
over!
The Bible tells us that not only is God our Father - but He
is also a Judge. And as a Judge, He will be
judging every single one of us when we die and cross over -
which includes both Christians and nonbelievers.
When Christians die and cross over, the Bible tells us that
we all have to appear before the judgment seat of Christ to
directly face Jesus for all the good and bad things that we
have ever done in this life. This judgment will not cast us
into hell since we have all been saved and born again through
the blood of Jesus. However, I have a very funny feeling that
this judgment that will be rendered upon each Christian will
somehow determine what kind of reward and place he or she will
have in heaven.
Per the article I recently did titled "Rewards
in Heaven," the Bible says that there will be crowns and
rewards for those who have done good in this life as compared
to those who have done nothing with the allotted amount of time
that has been given to each one of us in this life.
If another person has seriously wronged you and
they do not get this sin forgiven under the Blood of Jesus
before they die - then they will have to face God’s
judgment for the specific wrong they have done to
you!
This is why you can let any wrong go into the
hands of God. When everything is all finally said and done,
God will be the final judge on all matters, and He will be
the One to right all of the wrongs that have ever been done
to you - whether it be from another Christian or from a
nonbeliever.
The Bible tells us that "Vengeance belongs to the
Lord" - not to us! It is God’s job and responsibility to
right all of the wrongs ever done to us in this lifetime -
not ours! God will be getting even for you!
This is why each Christian can truly let any
wrongs go into the hands of God the Father. You have to
believe and trust that God will properly handle each of the
wrongs that have ever been done against you in this
life.
In the case of the nonbeliever, the Bible tells us that all
of them will be pulled up out of hell at the end of the
1000-year millennium to face God for what is called the Great
White Throne Judgment.
The Bible says there is a Book that records all of our works
and deeds that are done in this life, and God will be judging
each one of these nonbelievers according to all of their works
and deeds. The implication is that most, if not all of them,
will be thrown into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone where the
smoke of their torment will ascend forever and ever.
If someone has raped you, sexually abused you, or murdered a
close loved one - many of these evil people will end up being
cast into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone - and that will be for
all of eternity!
Justice will have been more than done for you in some of
these more extreme cases where their final fate and end will be
them being cast into the most horrible place imaginable for all
of eternity!
When you watch some of these criminal court cases on TV -
closure is only partially granted to the victims when the
murderer has been caught and successfully tried and prosecuted.
Depending on the state where the trial takes place, the
convicted murderer will either get life in prison without the
possibility of parole or the death penalty if that state has
it.
When the victims of these evil crimes are interviewed after
the jury verdict comes in, they all say they feel some relief
and some closure as a result of this person getting caught.
However, the victims of these types of extreme crimes are now
stuck with the task of getting their lives back in order and
they will now have to deal with all of the negative emotions
that have settled in on them over this course in time.
How they handle these types of negative emotions
and feelings will determine the quality of their lives from
here on in. If they do not get a proper grip on these
intense negative emotions and some kind of inner healing on
them - they will spend the rest of their earthly lives with
a lot of their love, joy, and peace either completely gone
or seriously diminished in the Lord.
So the first thing each Christian must grab a hold of if
faced with this kind of worst case scenario is that even though
the criminal got caught, tried, convicted, and properly
sentenced - that is just the beginning.
Where the real judgment will occur is when that person dies
and crosses over to meet his Maker - God Almighty Himself! This
person will then face his ultimate and final judgment for the
serious wrong he has inflicted upon you - and this judgment may
possibly get him thrown into the real hell for all of
eternity!
All of the above is what I call the big picture.
This is the real reality from God's point of view and
perspective. Once you fully grasp and fully realize that
God will eventually be judging each person that has
seriously wronged you to any degree in this life - then you
can truly let the matter go into His hands. It's finished
as far as you are concerned! It’s a done deal!
This is why God tells us in the Bible to cast all of our
cares and burdens upon Him - because it His job to take
complete care of them for you and to right all of the wrongs
where they do exist.
Sometimes God will right the wrong for you in this lifetime.
The person who has wronged you will reap the consequences of
his actions and God will make sure that those consequences hit
him full force while he is still living down here on this
earth.
Other times, this person will not face the eternal
consequences of his actions until after he dies and comes
before God for his own personal judgment. Some people will
literally get away with cold-blooded murder in this life. The
police or the criminal justice system will never catch them.
However, their days are numbered in this life, and as soon as
they die and cross over, they will all have to face God for
their ultimate and final judgment.
It always amazes me that so many criminals think they can
just live out this life doing whatever they want - and think
they can actually get away with it because they have managed to
evade the law for such a long period of time. Boy are they
going to be in for a big surprise when they die and cross over
and find out what is really waiting for them on the other
side!
As a Christian, you have to step back and look at
this big picture when you have been wronged, and realize
that God will handle each of these wrongs and that true and
final justice will eventually be granted to you - either in
this life or the next to come.
However, even if you have grasped and believed in all of the
above, you are still left with one more problem. You now know
God will eventually be righting all of the wrongs ever done to
you when it is all said and done. However, how do you get rid
of the negative feelings that have settled in on you as a
result of experiencing some of these vicious wrongs?
You know God does not want you carrying around feelings of
hate, anger, wrath, bitterness, and depression. You keep
telling yourself that you are not going to allow these types of
feelings and emotions to have any part of you - but no matter
how hard you try, you just can't seem to get any victory over
them.
You can still feel these negative emotions rolling around
down in your soul and spirit. These negative emotions and
feelings continue to rob you of your joy, peace, and love for
God and others. You have lost your zest for life and you just
can’t seem to get it back - no matter how hard you try, no
matter how many pep talks you give yourself, no matter how much
you pray to God and talk to others about it, and no matter how
many counselors you see.
You feel like you are carrying around a 50-pound anchor
around your waist. Everything is a chore. Nothing brings you
any happiness anymore. You hardly ever smile. These negative
emotions are eating you up alive on the inside. You feel like
you are a walking dead man - a zombie.
You are really trying to forgive the father who has sexually
abused you during your childhood years – but you just can’t
seem to really do it - no matter how hard you try. These
negative feelings are like a "yoke" - they just seem to
keep sticking to you on the inside.
The Bible talks about the "yoke of bondage." These
negative feelings have you bound up and you can’t seem to break
them off of you.
So what is the answer? How do you break these negative
feelings off of you? There is only one way and that leads us to
the second principle of this one-two punch - and that is the
right cross - the power of the Holy Spirit!
2. The Power of the Holy Spirit
We as humans only have a certain amount of natural strength,
not only within our natural physical bodies, but also within
our souls and spirits where our intellect and emotions reside.
Each person only has a limited amount of mental, emotional,
spiritual, and physical strength at his disposal.
Some people can bounce back from adversity better and
quicker than others. We have all seen that. However, we all
have our breaking points, no matter how strong we think we are.
We can only lift so much with our physical bodies - no matter
how many steroids a bodybuilder may take.
We all have different levels of mental and emotional
strength. Some are stronger in their minds than others. We see
this mental strength in many of our professional athletes. Some
of these athletes can do and accomplish things a normal person
cannot do - not only because they are physically stronger, but
also because they are mentally stronger. They don’t give up as
quickly as someone else would. How many times have we seen
professional athletes amaze us when in the heat of extreme
adversity - they plow through on sheer will power and mental
strength to achieve total victory?
Some are also stronger in their emotions than others. We can
see this in the different ways people react to severe tragedy.
Some can bounce back quicker - they don’t hold any grudges
against anyone for the tragedy. Life is too short for them to
dwell on the negative aspects of the tragedy and they prefer to
press on with the rest of their life and let the past go.
Others cannot do that as easily.
They can’t let the past go. They don’t have the emotional
strength to get a grip on the negative emotions that have
settled in on them. Before they know it, they are mired down
into a depression and they are holding grudges against the
wrongdoers and are mad at everything and everybody in the
world. They can’t get over the negative feelings they are
experiencing and before long - they have lost all of their joy
and zest for living.
Too many Christians are in this second boat. They have been
hit with some serious torpedoes and they can’t seem to get back
up to start living again. The negative emotions that have set
in on them are literally killing them!
Many in the medical profession believe that negative
emotions can help lead to cancer and other various diseases and
illnesses. Not only can these negative emotions kill you
mentally, emotionally, and spiritually - but they can also lead
to diseases and illnesses that can physically kill you.
To those Christians who can’t seem to get back up and get
over the wrongs done to them by others - who don’t have enough
mental, emotional, and spiritual strength within their own
makeup to work these negative emotions out of themselves -
there is only one answer for them.
And that answer is they simply have to go to God
the Father in prayer and ask Him, by the power of the Holy
Spirit, to remove all of the negative emotions that are
eating them up alive. They have to tell God that they don’t
have the strength within their own emotional and mental
makeup and that they need His supernatural power to pull
all of these negative emotions and feelings out of
them.
If you go direct to God the Father with a sincere request to
help you out with this kind of a dilemma - God will help
deliver you from the bondage of these negative emotions and
feelings. God will literally do "inner spiritual
surgery" on you to help pull these negative emotions
out of you.
This is a supernatural work done by the Holy Spirit
Himself. Since the Holy Spirit is the One who lives on the
inside of you - He is the One who will actually do the
inner spiritual surgery to pull all of
these negative emotions out of you. However, you first have
to go direct to God the Father and ask Him to release this
kind of deliverance power to you - which He will do through
the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit is our Helper. He is
there to help us out on anything that we may need His help on.
And one of the things that He loves to get involved in is the
transformation process - the sanctification process to make you
into a better and more holy person - mentally, emotionally, and
spiritually.
When you ask God to take these kinds of negative emotions
out of you - it can sometimes happen very quickly - possibly
within seconds, minutes, days or weeks. Or it could take a bit
longer, perhaps spread out over several months - which would be
more of a progressive type healing. God is the Surgeon, so let
Him decide how He wants to work this inner surgery and how long
He wants to take to do it with you.
Once this inner spiritual surgery has been
completed by the Holy Spirit, you will no longer "feel"
these negative emotions. You will still have full "memory"
of the anger you may have felt against someone who has
wronged you, but you will no longer feel that anger. God
has miraculously and supernaturally removed the "feelings"
of that emotion from you. This is what is called an inner
healing.
So many Christians are mired down in depressions as a
result of life’s torpedoes that have hit them. If they
would only simply approach God the Father in sincere prayer
and ask Him for His power to heal them on the inside - He
would be more than happy to meet them all the way and clean
them up on the inside. But these Christians are not getting
this type of deliverance from God simply because they have
never approached and asked Him specifically for this kind
of deliverance.
The Bible says "You have not because you ask not."
Many times, God will not move in with His deliverance power on
your situation until you first ask Him to do so in prayer.
Sometimes it really is that simple!
Too many Christians are running to psychologists,
psychiatrists, and counselors, not to mention the drug store
for their favorite tranquilizer or anti-depressant medication.
The number one selling prescription drug for the year 2001 was
anti-depressant medication! And I have to believe there were
many Christians in that boat.
We as Christians have the greatest Counselor, the greatest
Teacher, the greatest Deliverer, the greatest Healer living
right there on the inside of us - the Holy Spirit! The Bible
calls Him the "Counselor."
And not only are His services completely free, but the Holy
Spirit is God and Lord Himself, and as God, He has maximum
power to handle and deliver you from any problems that can come
your way - whether they be mental, emotional, spiritual, or
physical.
The Holy Spirit can also get at the root of your problems -
especially when you get into the emotional realm of your being.
He will pull these negative feelings out at the roots so they
don’t keep coming back on you. Anti-depressants just cover or
mask the problem. They never get at the root of the problem.
The same with doctors and counselors. They can talk all day
long about your problem - but they do not have God’s full
supernatural power to literally pull these emotions out at
their roots to bring about a full inner healing on these
negative emotions.
Sometimes talking about your problems to
counselors or others will help release a part of these
negative emotions - but only the supernatural power of God
can actually get at the real root of these problems and
pull all it out at that root. Neither you, the doctors, or
any type of drug can do this for you - only God
can!
The above principle also applies to trying to forgive
someone who has seriously wronged you. You know God wants you
to forgive this person - but your feelings are not lining up
with what is coming out of your mouth. You tell God you have
forgiven this person, but yet you still feel the anger and the
bitterness against this person.
What you do in this case is to tell God, with a confession
out of your mouth, that you will forgive this person - even if
your don’t really feel like you have forgiven this person
within your own feelings and emotions.
God will take and accept the confession out of your mouth
that you have truly forgiven this person, even if your feelings
are not lining up with this confession. But then you go to part
two and ask God to take these feelings of unforgiveness out of
you and He will do it just like He will do with your other
negative emotions. All of a sudden, after a certain length of
time, you will feel it on the inside of your heart and your
spirit that you have now truly forgiven this person and that
you are no longer holding any grudges or feelings of anger,
bitterness, or resentment toward this person.
You have truly let this person go - knowing that
his fate and the consequences of his actions are now fully
in the hands of God. You are now free and you can now start
fully living again. The Bible tells us that no one is fit
for the kingdom of God if they keep looking back on their
past and dwelling on it. The apostle Paul says that he
forgets those things that are behind him and continues to
press forward for the things that now lie ahead of
him.
The Bible tells us that Jesus has come to set
the captives free - and one of the greatest areas of
captivity for many of us is in our own minds. The Bible
tells us that a man is as he thinks. In other words, you
can become what you think. Your thought life, what you
think about and dwell on, can make or break you in this
life. This is why the Bible tells us that we are actually
transformed by the renewing of our minds. You have to learn
how to develop right thinking in your mind and thought
process.
I’ll end this article with some good Scripture verses on all
of the above points. Some of these verses have already been
mentioned in some of my other articles, but for the sake of
this article and the specific points being talked about, I will
go ahead and state these verses once again due to the extreme
importance of each of them.
The Scripture Verses
For those of you who are really battling with yourself on
being able to get over the hurts and injustices of your past,
really study and meditate on the following verses. Jesus has
already told us in His Word that His truth will set us free.
But before His Word and truth can start to work to set you free
- you have to know exactly what those truths are, and then seek
to understand them, and then get them implimented into your way
of thinking. These truths have to become a part of your right
thinking in the Lord.
The Scripture verses I will list below are given you Jesus'
truths on this particular subject matter. These truths can work
to set you free in this realm if you will do your part and
assimilate these truths into your way of thinking in this
life.
1. The Judgment of God
Here are several good verses showing us that we will all
appear before the judgment seat of Christ after we die and
cross over - no exceptions! Notice this first verse says that
"every secret thing" and that "every work,"
whether it be good or evil, will be brought before God for His
judgment.
Thus anyone who has unjustly wronged you in this life will
have to answer to God when they face Him for their own personal
judgment if that wrong has not been confessed and forgiven
before they die. I believe all of these verses are literal
interpretation and they mean exactly what they are saying!
- "For God will bring every work into judgment,
including every secret thing, whether it is good or whether
it is evil." (Ecclesiastes 12:13)
- "For we must all appear before the judgment
seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done
in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or
bad." (2 Corinthians 5:10)
- "And there is no creature hidden from His
sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him
to whom we must give account." (Hebrews 4:13)
If more people knew about these kinds of verses and the
seriousness of each of these verses, more people would think
twice before deciding to unjustly attack or hurt another
person.
2. Letting Go of the Past
Here are two very good verses on God wanting us to let go of
the things in our past and to continue to press forward to
accomplish His perfect will and plan for our lives. The first
verse is from the apostle Paul and the second verse is coming
direct from Jesus Himself.
- "... but one thing I do, forgetting those
things which are behind and reaching forward to those
things which are ahead. I press toward the goal for the
prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."
(Philippians 3:13-14)
- But Jesus said to him, "No one having put his
hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom
of God." (Luke 9:62)
Life is simply way too short to be wallowing in the hurts
and injustices of your past. God will be righting all of the
wrongs ever done to you in this life. This is why you can fully
let go of your past and start fully living in your present
again.
3. You Are What You think
Here is a short, but very powerful Scripture verse telling
us that a man will become as he "thinks" in
his heart. If you think and dwell on happy and positive type
thoughts, then you will become a happy and positive type
person. However, if all you do is think about and dwell on the
negative side of this life, then you will become a negative and
depressive type person where people will not want to even be
around you. Here is the verse:
"For as he thinks in his heart, so is he." (Proverbs
23:7)
The Bible says that we are transformed by the renewing of
our minds. We have to learn how to develop right thinking in
our thought process. Our thought process does not control us -
we control it! We can choose to decide what we want to think
about and dwell on.
4. Sowing to the Flesh
According to the Bible, the people who have unjustly wronged
you in this life are sowing to the flesh. They are sowing to
the dark side of their personality as versus sowing to their
spirits, which is their good side, when they unjustly wrong
others for their own gain and profit.
This next verse specifically tells us that if these people
sow to their flesh with these types of unjust actions against
you, then they will eventually "reap corruption" - which
is death. This verse tells us that God will not be mocked and
they will literally reap what they have sown against you. Here
it is:
"Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever
a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to the
flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to
the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life."
(Galatians 6:7-8)
This verse gives us another reason to be able to let anyone
go into the hands of God who has severely wronged us in this
life. Sooner or later, they will all reap what they have sown -
and for some of them - it will be eternal punishment in the
most horrible place imaginable.
5. Unforgiveness and Loving Your Enemies
Here are three verses telling us that God wants us to
forgive those who have wronged us, and for us to be able to
love them, to do good to them, and to pray for them. This is a
tall order, but it is possible with the help of the Holy Spirit
guiding us in this.
"But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who
curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for
those who spitefully use you and persecute you ..."
(Matthew 5:44)
This next verse tells us that not only are we not to hate
anyone - but we are not to take any type of vengeance against
someone who has wronged us. This verse also tells us that we
are not to hold any grudges against anyone else and that we are
to love others as we would love ourselves.
"You shall not hate your brother in your heart ...
You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against
the children of your people, but you shall love your
neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord." (Leviticus
19:17)
This next verse really warns us of the consequences of not
fully forgiving others who have trespassed against us. When
someone has unjustly wronged you, they have trespassed against
you. In this verse, God tells us that if we do not forgive
those who have trespassed against us, then He will not forgive
us when we trespass against others.
"For if you forgive men their trespasses, your
heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not
forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father
forgive your trespasses." (Matthew 6:14-15)
And if we don’t get God's forgiveness for our trespasses
down here on this earth, then we will have to face Him for
judgment for these trespasses when we die and cross over to
meet Him face to face. This is truly a dire and strong warning
from the Lord in that we are not to carry any unforgiveness in
our hearts toward anyone - no matter how bad they may have
wronged us.
6. Vengeance Belongs to the Lord
For those of you who have been seriously wronged and are
contemplating some type of payback, some type of vengeful act
against that person - look very closely at this next verse.
This verse tells us that we are not to repay evil with evil.
In other words, God is telling us that any type of vengeful act
that we try to take against someone who has wronged us will be
considered an evil act on our part. And as such, we will either
have to face His judgment in this life or in the next life for
taking this vengeful act.
We are not allowed to take the law into our hands - either
on earth or in heaven. Vengeance and payback belong to the Lord
- not to us or anyone else who would like to try and get even
for you!
I know there are some people who say they would kill others
if anyone ever harmed any of their loved ones. But if you
payback death with death, you will have to answer to God for
your act of vengeance. This verse tells us to do just the
opposite - to pay back evil, to overcome evil with
goodness.
God will be the final Judge, Jury and Executioner on
the evil someone may have done to you. This is His
territory - not yours!
Here is a major power verse every single Christian really
needs to grab a hold of if they have ever been seriously
wronged or injured by the evil acts of another.
"Repay no one evil for evil ... live peaceably with
all men. Beloved, do not avenge yourselves ... for it is
written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord.
Therefore if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts,
give him a drink ... Do not be overcome by evil, but
overcome evil with good." (Romans 12:17-21)
Again, do not tempt your eternal fate with God the Father by
attempting to take the law in your own hands if someone has
viciously wronged either you or a close loved one.
The Bible says that murderers will not be entering into the
kingdom of heaven - and that may include you if you decide to
try and take another person's life as payback for something
they may have done to either you or someone else in your
family.
7. Judge Not
These next four verses are again strong warnings from the
Lord that we are not to judge others, that judgment belongs to
Him, and that we will all eventually be judged by God for all
of our transgressions that have not been forgiven under the
Blood of Jesus before we die.
- "Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what
judgment you judge, you will be judged ..." (Matthew
7:1)
- "Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn
not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will
be forgiven." (Luke 6:37)
These next two verses are from the apostle Paul. He lays it
out very clearly and very simply that we are to judge nothing
before the time of God’s personal judgment on all of us. Paul
says that God will bring to light all the hidden things of
darkness when this judgment occurs and until it does, we are to
go on living our lives trying to resolve what we can with our
neighbor and live in harmony as best we can with him.
- "... but He who judges me is the Lord.
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord
comes who will both bring to light the hidden things of
darkness and reveal the counsels of the heart ..." (1
Corinthians 4:4-5)
- "But why do you judge your brother? Or why do
you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand
before the judgment seat of Christ ... So then each of us
shall give account of himself to God. Therefore let us not
judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to
put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s
way." (Romans 14:10-13)
Again, God the Father could not make things any more clear
than by the way He has worded all of these verses. All of these
verses are giving us major warnings in that we are to fully
forgive all of our trespassers and that we are to let everyone
go into the hands of God who has seriously or viciously wronged
us in this life.
Conclusion
Until it is our time to depart from this life, each and
everyone of us will have to put up with a certain amount of
wrongs coming from other people. We have all been hit with
these wrongs and will continue to be hit with them until we
finally cross over to be with our Lord for all of eternity.
People are imperfect and many of them will choose to live
their life out of their flesh - where their only concerns in
this life is to get as much as they can, while they can, and
not caring who they run over and hurt in the process. Some of
these people are living their lives on a lower level than
animals, as their only goals in this life are for total and
complete self-gratification of all their own needs and
desires.
Until God finally prunes out all of these bad apples and we
finally get the New Heaven and New Earth as foretold to us in
the Book of Revelation, each one of us will have to handle
these wrongs as they come to us.
For those of you who have taken some real shots in your past
or possibly your present - just remember the big picture. God
will eventually be judging all of these people for all of the
wrongs they have ever done to anyone - including what they have
personally done to you.
Until then, don’t let the actions of a few bad
apples ruin the rest of your life with what little time you
still have left. Life really is way too short and you only
have one chance to live this life to its fullest for the
Lord. Make the most of what time you still have left. God
will be evening out all of the scores when it is all
finally said and done. There will eventually be true and
final justice for all.
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