I have long considered myself a prayer warrior. Each day, I fight and stand ready for battle against the adversary. There is no reason whatsoever to take false pride in such a role. That position can only allow one to be vulnerable to attack.
UNFORGIVENESS CAN AFFECT YOU SPIRITUALLY; YOU CAN"T AFFORD IT. I heard a wonderful young minister say: "Don't sign for the package!"
I suppose the adversary has studied me and looked for chinks in my armor. He found it in the area of unforgiveness. It was an area that I was not aware of.
Just a few hours after leaving church one Sunday, I was verbally attacked in a nice way. I didn't deserve it. The more that I thought about it, the more I became convinced that an injustice had been committed to me. I should have recognized that it was a test; but instead I allowed my emotions to drift into dangerous territory as I decided "how soon" I would totally forgive the person.
The dangerous part is the damage that can be done to my heart.
The bible says:
Guard your heart more than anything else, because the source of your life flows from it. Proverbs 4: 23
Hours longer than I should have; I forgave the person. I struggled with seeing them the same way beforehand. I believe one of the greatest challenges that believers have is realizing that we're all imperfect people.
We're supposed to have love for the next person the same that we have for ourselves. Love is longsuffering and we have to remember how many times we've heard that something was a piece of cake and it wasn't. As believers, we've been told that we'll face tests and trials and that we'll be persecuted. The lesson that I've learned is that when they do come, my assignment of love never changes; irregardless of how I feel. I've learned to give the burden to God.
I think that staying close to God and staying in the Word can help us to endure; the sin that "doth so easily beset us."
Unforgiveness is like an invisible poison; don't take it, reject it.
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