Volume 65 December 2026-January 2026 : Mokanoki

 

It will help you to forgive if you get to realise that people who hurt you have problems.  Hurting people hurt others.  When somebody lashes out at you or treats you unfairly, they have unresolved issues of their own. There is no excuse for hurting you but they are part of a chain that needs to be broken.  Somebody hurt them, so in turn they hurt you. Take a merciful approach and say, “God, I know what they did was wrong.  They hurt me and it was not fair but God I am not looking for revenge.  I ask you, God, to heal them and give them what they need.”

When you pray for your enemies and even bless those who do you wrong, as the Scripture says, God will settle your accounts (Matthew 5:44, 18:21-35).

God is a God of justice.  I do not know how long it will take but God has promised He will make the wrongs right.  He will restore what the enemy has stolen.  It does not matter how badly someone has hurt you.  It does not matter how wrong they were.  If you let go, God will settle your accounts.  God will pay you back.

When Jesus rose from the dead and came back to talk with His disciples, He said, “If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained” (John 20:23).  When you retain a sin, you hold on to the wrongs people have done to you, then the poison contaminates you. 

Sharon hated her father because he ran around on her mother.  Sharon did not have a good childhood.  She always resented the fact that her father was not faithful and he was not there for her growing up.  She could not stand to be around him.

But do you know that when Sharon grew up she ran around on her husband and broke up her own home?  She was not there for her own children.  She became exactly what she hated in her father.

That is why it is so important to forgive and let go.  The bitterness, the sin you retain, can produce the same results that hurt you.  If you were raised in an abusive environment, if you come from a family filled with anger and dysfunction, instead of becoming bitter and angry, why don’t you be the one to put an end to the negative cycle?

You can be the one to make a difference.  Are you holding on to anger and unforgiveness and passing poison down to the next generation?  Or are you willing to let go so your family can rise to a new level?

I realise it can be very hard to forgive, especially when someone has hurt you but God will never ask you to do something without giving you the ability to do it.

Forgiveness is a process.  It does not happen overnight.  You do not snap your fingers and make a hurt go away.  That is not realistic.  But should you continue to have the desire to forgive and ask God to help you, then bit by bit those negative feelings will fade. 

One day they will not affect you at all. Gatwe motshegare ga go lailwe, lets meet next year and conclude our topic. ends

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