By Rev. Stephen Okhutu
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Email:s_okhu@yahoo.com
I LOVE YOU: Women showing love through a handshake. This gesture can do wondersI my life I have seen many people suffering and sympathized with them. I have always wondered why God could keep on punishing his people when the Bible promises that he will love us when we keep his laws!
I kept on wondering until I discovered that what we call keeping laws is a misrepresentation of what the Bible means.
We should note first if we are to be good relationship with God that his command was Love. There is no way he should love us when we don’t love.
It is so funny how many Christians are praying these days! Cursing and asking God to destroy what they call their enemies! May be they forget that our Master Jesus commanded us to love and ceaselessly forgive!
Or may be they think they are the only ones that matter to God and so all the good thins should go to them!
But I say God loves us all regardless of who we are!
But how then do we suffer?
The answer is simple, we don’t forgive!
Forgiveness is a sign of love and when we forgive we prove to God that we are able and willing to be loved. Simple! Then God will also fulfill his promise.
Plainly the issue is, most of the problems we suffer are caused by us, because we have failed to love fellow human beings. So when the cycle of hatred causes its effects on us, then we will blame God!
This reminds me of a Servant in the Bible. He begged the King to write off his debt, because he was so poor to pay back. But he failed to forgive his fellow servant who begged for some time in which to clear the debt. In fact he just killed him! But when the King heard abut this, he had no alternative but to put him in jail until he pays off the debt.
Is this not what many people are doing today? And then we blame God!
This reminds me of a poem I read in my Secondary school. A man was praying to God for the healing of his Son who was admitted in a hospital in critical conditions, but in the process he saw a pregnant Cockroach trying to live. He moved from where he was praying, killed it and resumed his prayers blaming God for not being Just, why his child!
May he forgot that the cockroach he killed with its children also had life and wanted to live!
You can also imagine how many times you killed, or even caused harm to others but now you ask God to take away that problem on you. Do you think other people are happy to have problems and you are the only one to live a happy life? Think twice. The Bible says that you should do to others what you want them to do to you.
Do you now realize that most of the hardships we go through are to a larger extent a result of our ‘sins?’
Why don’t you consider forgiving that person? I know he wronged you, but do you think hate him will help?
I want to remind you that Jesus commanded us to forgive always because our reward is in heaven.
I know of a woman whose sister killed her daughter. This woman has moved for over 5 years without conceiving. She went to the prophet with the problem but he told her, the problem will be over after she has forgiven her sister. This was hard!
But because it was the only solution, she forgave her with her heart. As a test, she met her sister for the first time since the death of her daughter, imagine what happened!
Her sister was coming out of a public van while she was also trying to board! At that moment she felt the voice of God talking to her that this is the time! She hugged her and they all cried! She thereafter realized that her sister was living a very hard situation.
Within a year she conceived!
This means, her problem was not getting a child but love; she had to love her sister in order to get another child, much as it was the sister who killed her child! I know you can also forgive.
Otherwise you have an alternative, not to forgive and live with that problem of to forgive and live a happy life! The choice is yours.
I suggest that you begin by forgiving within you, then take a step and tell the ones you have hated that you love them and have forgiven all their transgressions, and hug or give a hand shake!
Or even give me a call or send an email and I will guide you. Remember you should do that before it is too late.
I remind you that God loves you and all his wishes to you are good, it is only you who have tried to be wild! By thinking that you are so special. Ok, you are, but others are also special before God!
I kept on wondering until I discovered that what we call keeping laws is a misrepresentation of what the Bible means.
We should note first if we are to be good relationship with God that his command was Love. There is no way he should love us when we don’t love.
It is so funny how many Christians are praying these days! Cursing and asking God to destroy what they call their enemies! May be they forget that our Master Jesus commanded us to love and ceaselessly forgive!
Or may be they think they are the only ones that matter to God and so all the good thins should go to them!
But I say God loves us all regardless of who we are!
But how then do we suffer?
The answer is simple, we don’t forgive!
Forgiveness is a sign of love and when we forgive we prove to God that we are able and willing to be loved. Simple! Then God will also fulfill his promise.
Plainly the issue is, most of the problems we suffer are caused by us, because we have failed to love fellow human beings. So when the cycle of hatred causes its effects on us, then we will blame God!
This reminds me of a Servant in the Bible. He begged the King to write off his debt, because he was so poor to pay back. But he failed to forgive his fellow servant who begged for some time in which to clear the debt. In fact he just killed him! But when the King heard abut this, he had no alternative but to put him in jail until he pays off the debt.
Is this not what many people are doing today? And then we blame God!
This reminds me of a poem I read in my Secondary school. A man was praying to God for the healing of his Son who was admitted in a hospital in critical conditions, but in the process he saw a pregnant Cockroach trying to live. He moved from where he was praying, killed it and resumed his prayers blaming God for not being Just, why his child!
May he forgot that the cockroach he killed with its children also had life and wanted to live!
You can also imagine how many times you killed, or even caused harm to others but now you ask God to take away that problem on you. Do you think other people are happy to have problems and you are the only one to live a happy life? Think twice. The Bible says that you should do to others what you want them to do to you.
Do you now realize that most of the hardships we go through are to a larger extent a result of our ‘sins?’
Why don’t you consider forgiving that person? I know he wronged you, but do you think hate him will help?
I want to remind you that Jesus commanded us to forgive always because our reward is in heaven.
I know of a woman whose sister killed her daughter. This woman has moved for over 5 years without conceiving. She went to the prophet with the problem but he told her, the problem will be over after she has forgiven her sister. This was hard!
But because it was the only solution, she forgave her with her heart. As a test, she met her sister for the first time since the death of her daughter, imagine what happened!
Her sister was coming out of a public van while she was also trying to board! At that moment she felt the voice of God talking to her that this is the time! She hugged her and they all cried! She thereafter realized that her sister was living a very hard situation.
Within a year she conceived!
This means, her problem was not getting a child but love; she had to love her sister in order to get another child, much as it was the sister who killed her child! I know you can also forgive.
Otherwise you have an alternative, not to forgive and live with that problem of to forgive and live a happy life! The choice is yours.
I suggest that you begin by forgiving within you, then take a step and tell the ones you have hated that you love them and have forgiven all their transgressions, and hug or give a hand shake!
Or even give me a call or send an email and I will guide you. Remember you should do that before it is too late.
I remind you that God loves you and all his wishes to you are good, it is only you who have tried to be wild! By thinking that you are so special. Ok, you are, but others are also special before God!
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