What is redemption? It is rescuing something, delivering something.We know that when we ask Christ into our life He rescues us and delivers us from our life of sin. We are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. What about those situations that happen after your a Christan, does God redeem those situations. Does he allow us to have restoration and closure? I have several situations in my life currently that I have been seeking God about.I have no doubt that God has forgiven me, I have asked for forgiveness from the parties involved(also Christians. I believe there has been forgiveness but not restoration or closure.) Do we get to have that all the time? Some of these situation have been as long as 10 years and some as short as a year. When we make a mistake in life and sin against another( as a christian),part of me wants a perfect world. I want to be able to go to that person confess my sin, get forgiveness and then relationship is restored, wiped clean. Just as Christ does for us. What I want to know is why is this so hard for us to wipe the slate clean and restore the situation- allow it to be redeemed. Why do we hang on to hurt? Why do we rehash situations and why are we disobedient to the Lord in our attitudes and actions? God has really been dealing with me on this and teaching me to always seek to walk in purity in these situations. It I want others to wipe the slate clean and be Christ to me. I need to be sowing this seed in my life. Always walking the walk of forgiveness , wiping the slate clean and restoring the situation. I need to live this with my children, my spouse, my extended family. So I have been looking through how to live this out in my life. I don't know that I always get to have full restoration and closure in every situation because I can only be responsible for my actions and response. This is the hard part but I do know that the scripture is very clear that " We do unto others as we want done to us" / I also know that we will reep what we sow. If we are sowing a critical, condenming spirit, keeping record of wrongs this is what we will sow. Okay, so the key is learning to walk in purity and removing those behaviors and actions in our life so that the harvest in our life will be pure.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.( quote by Dale Carnegie)
1. Practice Self control always.
“If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless” (James 1:26).
2. Do not allow a critical spirit to operate in your conversation or thought life. Learn to recognize a critical spirit trying to operate out of you and quench it immediately. An unbridled tongue make our religion useless. That is to the point and specific.
“I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle, While the wicked are before me” (Psalms 39:1).
3. Remove yourself from a situation( if you have to get on your knees for hours- do it)Bridle your tongue do not allow Condemning, criticizing or complaining to come forth from it. Take it to the Lord!!! The scripture says muzzle it.
One thing I do know is that the Lord is faithful. Rest in Him and his holy Kiss of assurance in who you are and what he desires you to be.
