\u201cBear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.\u201d Colossians 3:13<\/i><\/b>
\nI just have to share the most impactful part of my week. \u00a0It\u2019s going to be short and quick.
\nI am working on a writing project. \u00a0I wrote a chapter on forgiveness the other day. In my research I used this story.
\nCory Ten Boom, a prisoner in the concentration camps during World War II, was confronted with the guard that held her and her sister hostage. \u00a0He had come to know Jesus in the years since. \u00a0He had listened to her speak on God at a local church. \u00a0Afterwards he came up to her and asked her to forgive him for how he treated her while she was imprisoned. \u00a0He knew Christ had forgiven him, he wanted her forgiveness as well.
\nShe had just spoken on behalf of God. \u00a0She knew she was compelled to forgive. \u00a0However she had no desire to forgive. \u00a0So she asked God for help in this simple prayer:
\n\u201cJesus, help me! I can lift my hand. I can do that much. You supply the feeling.\u201d
\nShe describes lifting her hand woodenly, but then a current started in her shoulder and raced down her arm to their entwined hands. She said then a healing warmth flooded her entire body and true forgiveness entered her. She went on to say, after experiencing such a tremendous forgiveness, she never had trouble forgiving again.
\nI haven\u2019t been able to stop thinking about this since I wrote it. \u00a0I love this prayer. \u00a0I now know, sometimes all I have to do is lift my hand. \u00a0God will take care of the rest if I ask Him too.
\nI struggle with forgiveness. \u00a0I don\u2019t like letting people off the hook. \u00a0I really rather like them to squirm. \u00a0But that is not what God does. \u00a0That is not what God has done for me. \u00a0He has forgiven me completely. \u00a0The least I can do is forgive others.
\nI\u2019m not God, not by a long shot. \u00a0I am willing though, to lift my hand, trusting He will do the rest. \u00a0It will take some work though. \u00a0I pray He gives me the time to do it!
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