This Sunday was all about forgiveness. Forgiveness is difficult! Sometimes, it even seems impossible. But, God calls us to forgive and Jesus often teaches on forgiveness throughout Scripture. When we look at Luke 17:1-4, we see a few important things about forgiveness. First, we see that sin (unfortunately) is a part of life. God asks us to try to stay away from sinning, but inevitably we mess up sometimes. We also see in this passage in Luke that when someone sins against us, we are supposed to rebuke them! Call your friend or family member out on what they have done, because sometimes we hurt someone without even realizing it. Now this doesn't mean you have to yell at the person or be disrespectful. It simply means you need to let that person know that you are hurt by what they did. Next we learn that after making the sin known, we hope and pray for repentance...that the person will understand and feel sorry for what they have done. And with that repentance comes forgiveness. And we learn here in Luke that no matter how many times someone sins against us...no matter how much we get frustrated...God calls us to forgive that person every time!
In response we each thought of someone we need to forgive. We took a piece of yarn and tied it around our wrists like a bracelet. Knowing that sometimes it can take a while to forgive someone, we are each challenged to keep that bracelet on until we are able to fully forgive that person. Who is it you need to forgive? Comment on this post with your responses.
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