How many of you have encountered someone doing wrong by you and never apologizing for it? How many of you have wronged someone and you have never apologized for it? We have all done something to someone in this life that was wrong and whether intentional or unintentional, the wrong has caused a degree of damage. Sometimes we fail to see that a simple detailed apology will bring forth much healing and change, as opposed to sweeping the issues under the carpet and expect for it to go away.
Oftentimes, the intentionals are the worst because it leaves the person in a place to deal with the leftovers of what was done. When you have wronged someone, it can cause division among loved ones, distrust and cause the one wronged to feel displaced, frustrated and hurt.
However, there is a key that is workable in any situation. There are two challenges people will deal with in this life; the trying of your faith and the trying of one's heart. If you are a believer of Jesus Christ, it is a trying to your faith in God and pursuit after him, regardless what that person has done or said, the fact remains forgiveness is key and you keep it moving. The trying of your heart will be to guard it through prayer and watching what you allow to come out of it. For example, if that person speaks ill against you, do not repeat what they say because one....Those are words that are mediocre, they are beneath you and two.....It's not worth giving life to those words.
How many of you believe you are grown, at least this is what we say when we reach a certain age or we obtain the materialistic objects that are only temporal? Being grown is not contingent on the material objects or how many jobs/career one has...nor is it contingent on the houses one has... Being grown and mature constitutes for the capability to accept your wrong towards someone you say you love, especially when you see the hurt in their eyes and/ behavior. Making your wrongs right. Asking for forgiveness when you see you have caused division. Being mature enough to swallow your pride and say, "I was wrong for saying those words to you." or "I was wrong for causing you to feel like......"
Nevertheless, we have all done one or both of these. Forgiveness is key. Guard your heart by letting go what was said and done. Jesus said, "It is not what goes into the heart of a man that defiles him. It is what comes out of him/her that contaminates you." Pray for that person or persons like Jesus did. He said, "Bless them which curse (imprecate evil upon you, doom) you. Do good to them that hate (pursue with hatred, detest) you. Pray for them which despitefully use (insult, treat abusively, to revile, to threaten or accuse you falsely). Pray for them which persecute (Drive you away, harass, trouble, to be mistreated, suffer persecution on account of something without the idea of hostility)."
In conclusion, this is not an easy task, but it is required because it will bring healing to your heart and heaps of coals on their heads. You may be thinking, "I don't know how to pray for this person/persons." Ask the father and he will teach you what words to pray and what the need is in their life and then you watch God deal with them as only he can. Trust him...
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