The Word Remission (Acts2:28)

Have you ever been really hurt by someone? Most conflict occurs over silly things where two opposite opinions clash and spin out of control until it blows up into a full scale fight or argument. Sometimes people will not speak to each other for days, months and even years. The rationalization is, "I don't need to be bothered with that person in my life." But then you find yourself not going to places if you know the person will also attend. Some people go out of their way to avoid seeing someone. Well, socially you may never speak to that person again but truthfully and psychologically you're carrying that person around with you in your heart wherever you go, it's a disease of UN-forgiveness! What makes it a disease? It's a disease because it eats at you in your heart, soul, mind and conscience continually. And you think about it over and over again periodically. The therapeutic gossip approach is to talk about that person to someone else which only makes the thing bigger. There are many diseases that eat and deteriorate the human body but the greatest affect is seen in what it does to the mind. When people get their feelings hurt they think of all kinds of crazy things relating to revenge, retaliation, retribution, road-blocking, anything to hurt the person back. The pain from this kind of disease will never stop until it's treated and sent into remission. Remission means the symptoms begin to disappear and eventually you're cured. What kind of hurt are you carrying around inside you?

God's feelings are hurt by millions of people every day and you and I are in that number. But we don't think of God's feelings like we do our own. The difference between God and us is he's willing to forgive us and forget about the hurt right away. God so loved the world that he gave his Son Jesus for the sole purpose of granting us remission of our sins. How can we say that we are God's people, God's children and yet we sensitively carry our feelings on our shoulders refusing to forgive others? She who doesn't identify with God's forgiving nature is not of God! Today we look at a forgiving father, a repentant son and an unforgiving brother (Luke 15:11-32). The quickest way to be cured from anyone hurting you is to forgive them as fast as you can, then the hurt and pain can go into remission!