Forgiveness

Have you ever had that situation that you couldn't imagine happening to you? Well, I am right now. I know the Bible talks about loving one another and I tell my peers that all the time. We should always forgive and be slow to anger as God said. Right now I'm upset with someone who I believed was my friend but apparently wasn't because she spoke about me behind my back. At first, I was heated and I felt like speaking terrible things about her. Then I remembered the words that Jesus spoke. I would be a hypocrite to tell my peers to forgive if I can't even do it myself. I am not a hypocrite and I don't plan on being one.

   I tell my friends to forgive someone who does them wrong, so I am going to be an example to them by doing the exact thing. I want a place in Heaven and I'm gonna do whatever it takes to get it. Nothing is going to get in the way of that - Not even a petty situation with someone else. I love God too much to disobey His commandments.
  
   So, I'm going to forgive her.  I'm not only going to forgive her but I'm going to get on my knees and pray because God is able. She has an issue, in which, she speaks continuously about other people behind their backs.  I feel terrible for her, now that I think about it, because it may become a huge issue in her life. I'm going to pray that God will take that spirit away.

   I'm also going to pray for myself. You see, I cannot do anything on my own. By faith, I can first forgive but only the Lord can bring forgiveness into my heart. So, I'm asking God that He will open up my heart to forgive because it's the right thing to do. I will not lie, I don't really feel like forgiving her. I really feel like spreading information as she's done to me. But as I tell my peers, "An eye for an eye just makes one blind."  I have to be the bigger person and forgive, regardless of the way I feel. I may not feel forgiving now but I know that God is working on my heart and He will give me a forgiving heart towards her.

   If any of you have a situation, just please remember the words of our Lord, Jesus Christ. He taught us to forgive. Sinners like us, stained and marred, He came down and died to forgive us of our sin. Can we not forgive something simple as this?