Maybe this is for you right now?

I think it is funny how we think that doing the right things should always be the easiest thing to do...

I have also discovered that doing the right things for the rights reasons, tends to give you the best results ultimately - it is just that the right thing is sometimes the hardest thing...

As disciples of Jesus, our best and most dramatic example of this in action is actually at the worst moment of Jesus life! While he hung on that cross the words, "Father, forgive them" were uttered. 

To be honest I am not sure if Jesus was 'feeling it'? 

In the middle of His pain, He was offering something profound and far reaching!

What He did do was very hardcore, an example that is definitely not easy to follow, but maybe the right one to follow for each of us?

Where I am most definitely just like you is that I have lived enough life to have discovered pain.

There is a long list of people who have caused me hurt that I could justify myself in sharing with you.

But that isn't the right thing to do is it?

The right thing to do, is in the middle of what is uncomfortable or even downright painful, is to give out forgiveness.

It doesn't have to be pretty, be poetic or professional...it just has to be presented.

Jesus didn't look pretty, sound poetic or come across professional on a bloody cross. He just choose to love above the pain, with everything He could muster. And ultimately He was trusting His father with the outcome. It didn't have to feel right to be right...

Some people say they will forgive when they feel ready to forgive.

I do agree that timing is important. But it is not the most important!

The danger is that the more we look for excuses, the longer we hold onto something that is actually doing us harm. The quicker is it dealt with, the quicker the resolution.

Scripture backs this up...We forgive because he first forgave us!

Something to think about...