Monday, June 15, 2009

True Forgiveness

What does true forgiveness look like? My view is that when a person has been wrong, I would accept any apology because I can not know the heart of a person. I am writing this blog because of a situation. I decided last night that I need to get involved into the situation that is hurting relationships that was once strong. I do not exactly what happen and I am taking the stand that I actually know very little of what is happening. A reason why I am getting involved is because there are many people involved that might not see what is wrong as of today. I believe that some are trying to heal the wound but not all parties involved are willing.

What I think true forgiveness looks like is when someone has done something wrong, you forgiven and forget. If it is not easily forgettable, I think then a plan has to be made to grow where it is forgotten. I see that as when we sin against the Holy God, as Christians he forgets our transgressions. We must able that same thing. God is great to forgiven without holding a grudge but we humans are not. The word forgive in Greek means to let go, to send away. We must remember all the sins that God will not hold against Christians when they are judge be he cleanse us of all unrighteousness when we ask for his forgiveness (1 John 1:9). As I looked for verses that will help to understand forgiveness, I came across three: 2 Corinthians 2:5-11, Ephesians 4:31-32, and Colossians 3:8-14. Each one of these verses explain how forgiveness should work. The person who forgive should be loving those people the person forgive.

What is missing is the love of the other in this situation. I understand that the friendship for now is lost but by God's sovereign grace these relationships can be repaired and grow.

I want to make note that comments have been disable for this post. The reason behind this blocking of comments is because I feel that the annyoistiy of the post should remain. Now people who know about the situation will understand the post. The people involved can e-mail or call me. I think that this is a problem on both side of the situation.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Fellowship

I am just back from a church in the town of Isleham. It a church that I thought about going for sometime now but God called me to attend today. What a blessing it was. I meet a couple of people and the pastor and his wife. He is a John Piper fan. The sermon was a great sermon in Nehemiah 2 about prayerfully waiting on God, acting and praying to God. Nehemiah prayed to God about the burden of Jerusalem. He waited and served God where he was placed. The preacher, who was an elder, spoke on how we must pray and wait for God to move. In Chapter 2 of Nehemiah, we see that Nehemiah wanted to rebuild the walls and gates of Jerusalem. He talk about how they, the church, needs to pray and they try to rebuild the church in England (and American also). That we need to sit back and look at the problem but go an attack the problem within and outside the church. To rebuild the walls so we can defend ourselfs.

The reason why I felt the need for going was due to the lack of word this morning. I guess I was not engaged in the sermon this morning but this sermon had me engaged until my mind wondered but I got it back in focus. The sermon encouaged me to reach the lost even more to define Christianity and false Christianity. During these hard time we must continueto reach the lost and attack the culture with Bibical truth.

All that and that is not even the reason for the post. The reason of this post is because of the great fellowship I had with the pastor. I can not thank God enough for the blessing. We talk for a long time and everything was Christ centered. It restored my soul to talk to a Christian brother that I just meet. I do not know much about his life but in Christ we have a connection that will never end. My only regret is that I did not change church sooner. I will thank God that he has showed me a church that is Christ-centered and on fire for God. I now know what a real Christian church looks like. Now the church hunt begians. I can truly say that I can not express in a blog how I feel right now. I wish that I could have more fellowship with believers that can never end. It was God who showed my what true fellowship in His son is like and I want to glorify him with.

I leave with only idea. Have you truly been a fellowship that cannot come close to being defined?

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

In the Middle of a Battle that I do not want to be in.

This post is written as I am sadden by some events. I am in the middle of a battle. This is a very difficult place to be. I am split between two parties that I want to continue to hold dear. Since this is on the internet for everyone to read, I am not mention anything about this battle. I am going to talk about the feel that I have. It is to a point now, that I will have to choose a side. This choice is a tough decision and one I wash I do not have to make.

A new Blog Name

I was thinking of a new blog name. Here are some of my ideas.

The not-in-England-anymore England File
Just another blog that has no meaning.
The Liberty File (formally know as "The England File")
I can not think of a name that suits the randomness of this blog, so this long line will work.
or:
The life of Mike Miller