MANDELA LEGACY - A 5 FINGER RULE: OUGHT IT NOT TO BE A TRUE CHRIST-LIKE LEGACY ???
1. If You have never first STRUGGLED with unforgiveness as You encounter Your Offender or the offense, then You can neither truly begin the process of true healing nor true forgiveness.
2. If You never in one moment feel that You have forgiven Your offender and in the next moment or next occasion (when encoun...tering the Offender or Offense) gripped again with the pains of the offense, then the PROCESS for Your healing from that offense has never ever begun.
3. If You cannot REMEMBER all the pain You've gone through while still finding PEACE within Yourself in the ensuing moments, or days, or weeks, or month or even years when You encounter the Offender even if he or she does not upsets You again, You have not truly forgiven the Offender and You are not truly healed of the Offense.
4. If You cannot truly pray for Your Offender or about the offense without bitterness or resentment or the desire for vengeance, then You are still mired in unforgiveness and ungodliness.
5. To truly forgive is to become Christ-like: knowing that the Offender and the Offense have NO POWER over You and that ONLY Your Reaction gives the Offender or Offense POWER over You even the Destructive Power of Unforgiveness and Resentment.
So, until Your conscience is void of offense towards all, the rottenness of bitterness still resides within You. And that, is bound to manifest one way or the other (including as a physical destructive disease or sickness of self or community-society-nation) sooner or later.
In sum, No One has any other option in life but to forgive the Offender and the Offense.
Submitted by: The Ven. Professor M. Josiah-Omeokwe
The Bronx, NY
USA.
1. If You have never first STRUGGLED with unforgiveness as You encounter Your Offender or the offense, then You can neither truly begin the process of true healing nor true forgiveness.
2. If You never in one moment feel that You have forgiven Your offender and in the next moment or next occasion (when encoun...tering the Offender or Offense) gripped again with the pains of the offense, then the PROCESS for Your healing from that offense has never ever begun.
3. If You cannot REMEMBER all the pain You've gone through while still finding PEACE within Yourself in the ensuing moments, or days, or weeks, or month or even years when You encounter the Offender even if he or she does not upsets You again, You have not truly forgiven the Offender and You are not truly healed of the Offense.
4. If You cannot truly pray for Your Offender or about the offense without bitterness or resentment or the desire for vengeance, then You are still mired in unforgiveness and ungodliness.
5. To truly forgive is to become Christ-like: knowing that the Offender and the Offense have NO POWER over You and that ONLY Your Reaction gives the Offender or Offense POWER over You even the Destructive Power of Unforgiveness and Resentment.
So, until Your conscience is void of offense towards all, the rottenness of bitterness still resides within You. And that, is bound to manifest one way or the other (including as a physical destructive disease or sickness of self or community-society-nation) sooner or later.
In sum, No One has any other option in life but to forgive the Offender and the Offense.
Submitted by: The Ven. Professor M. Josiah-Omeokwe
The Bronx, NY
USA.
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