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I just watched a show today called Monk. Apparently he is a widowed police detective. In today’s episode he finds the man who murdered his wife. The man is in the hospital on a morphine drip to take the pain away. The man apologizes profusely to him for killing his wife. Monk’s anger boils and he dis-engages the morphine drip which places the man in severe pain. Monk says to him: “This is me turning off your morphine”. Monk waits a minute in anger to see the man suffer. He then turns it back on to relieve the man’s pain. As he re-engages the drip, Monk says to his wife’s killer: “This is my wife Trudy turning it back on.” Monk then leaves the room as the man cries aloud. Wow! What a great illustration of forgiveness.
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5:17 pm - January 26th, 2008
Mark, It is insightful that you see and share that biblical application.
My experience is, once I realized ALL the sins that I had committed and realized HOW MUCH I NEEDED to be forgiven of… I prayed and confessed that I accepted Christ’s shed blood to cleans me from all my sin. Then my “want to’s” changed and instead of “wanting revenge” I “wanted to extend that same forgiveness that I had found to others”.
Matthew 6: 14 For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
Matthew 18:34-34 In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed. 35″This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Mark - I can see both from knowing you and from your writings what God has done and is doing in your life. I can sense the fruits of his “Spirit” within you. I am excited to see where God is taking you on your journey to be ALL he has called you to be.
In his care,
Annette
9:17 pm - June 25th, 2008
Good writing, Mark.
Thanks for all the traffic you send my way.
Rod Smith