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Tuesday, 5th March, 2024
Passage from Today’s Church Readings:
“Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, Lord, if my brother keeps on sinning against me, how many times do I have to forgive him? Seven times? No, not seven times, answered Jesus, but seventy times seven”(Matthew 18:21-22)
FORGIVENESS IS THE LAST STEP OF THE GRIEVING PROCESS
Forgiveness is a moral ginger and a prescription. There are preemptive conditions that act to create basis to seek for forgiveness; they include vices that breed in envy, greed, wickedness, infidelity, betrayals, corruption in various forms and many others.
Sometimes these vices come in complex abnormalities that generate vexatious actions. To solve these problems would require the role of forgiveness. Here forgiveness amounts to injection of positive attitude for attitude is everything.
In a CBS of New York interview of 25th August, 2010, the estranged wife of golf legend, Tiger Woods, Elin Nordegen, reacting to Tiger Woods’ infidelity stink said: “I have been through hell, it’s hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden, you ask, was it a lie? I am so embarrassed that I never suspected……not a one. I would eventually forgive Woods; forgiveness takes time, it is the last step of the grieving process”
This is playing out in many places today, where we see grief and forgiveness struggling to reposition harmony and understanding. It’s truly difficult but it’s a surmountable thing.
Forgiving seventy times seven times means that forgiveness is a compulsion, it means upholding unceasing stand on forgiveness. Establishing forgiveness and building a sense of relief in it is the tenet of love that incorporates forgiveness as part of divine law as contained in the Lord’s prayer. When we keep forgiveness as the tag of existence it’s a guarantee to God’s grace.
AND in PRAYING
Forgiveness takes time to grow and requires the grace of God to bring it to fruition; we need to pray to God, nothing works without His consent. And in praying we ask Lord “teach us to live according to your truth, for you are our God, who saves us. we always trust in you”(Psalm 25:5) and in that we communicate our desire, for we must seek to obtain relief. May God answer our prayers.
AND in THANKSGIVING
Thanking God is a necessity at all times, God receives honour through that, and in praises we obtain His attention of grace for “the LORD is the friend of those who obey him and he affirms his covenant with them”(Psalm 25:14). We thank God today and always. Amen.
Julius O. Dike
