Matthew 6:14 (NKJV) 14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you“.
Have you ever been betrayed by someone?
Betrayal is definitely painful. And we probably all experience it to some degree, at some point in our lives.
How do we handle betrayal? What do we do so that we don’t get bogged down by the hurt that we feel when someone betrays us?
When someone has betrayed us, it’s not uncommon for our first reaction to be wanting to get revenge, feeling extreme anger or even wanting to hurt that person like they just hurt us.
But, the first thing we really need to do is make a decision to forgive the person or people who betrayed us. This can sometimes be very difficult to accept and to do. But it’s necessary for us to do this. Otherwise we become a prisoner of our hurt feelings and our anger.
And if we hold onto those feelings and that anger for too long, it can turn into bitterness. And bitterness can eat us up from the inside out, if we’re not careful. Bitterness is kind of like poison that we’ve swallowed. We can’t really see it, but it’s on the inside of us, destroying us a little at a time.
Once we make the decision to forgive, then we need to begin walking it out, one day at a time. It takes time for it to come to fruition. As we give the hurt to God, He will help us begin to heal from the wounds that were inflicted by the other person.
And instead of us focusing on the hurt or the betrayal, we need to begin focusing on God and our walk with Him. As we do this, and as we draw near to Him, He will heal our heart and make us whole again.
It takes time. It won’t happen all at once, or immediately, but it will happen if we do our part and let God do His.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808
401-315-0902
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