Stay healthy - Forgive ! What has forgiveness to do with being healthy, you may ask. A lot. We cannot deny that anger always hurt. This is everyone's experience. And what's more, it also doesn't give us peace. It is like a fire that cannot be extinguished. It keeps on burning long after the event is over.
Only now medical researchers are finding out that forgiveness play an important role in keeping a person well. But christians have known this eversince the time of Jesus Christ as mentioned in the new testament part of the bible. That the individual who has been wronged should forgive the offender.
For christians, this is no big deal. It is part of their religious teaching. But just knowing is not good enough. It must be applied. As is commonly experienced, it is easier to retaliate on the person who has committed the offence rather than to forgive him.
In fact as mentioned in the earlier part of this article, it could become a health problem eventually. By manifesting into physical illness. There was this story about a lady who was very angry with the husband of her daughter. Because he had sold all the properties his mother-inlaw had given to his wife. The old lady could not forgive him.
To the extent that due to her extreme anger, she became physically disabled and could not walk. Until one day, she attended a religious seminar. One of the topic of the talks was unforgiveness. After the talk, there was counselling and she attended that session. She was told to forgive her son-inlaw. But couldn't.
She was asked to do again by asking Jesus to help her. She tried and the counsellor prayed with her. In the end she agreed and forgave him. Once she did that, she felt like a heavy burden was taken away from her. There was peace in her heart and her face was radiant. She was happy and joyful.
The next day at the seminar, everyone was surprise when she walked in. Instead of a wheelchair, she was using her own two legs. And people just wanted to know what happened to her? Forgiveness ! And she told them the story about her son-inlaw.
So always be ready to forgive others. Forgiveness will take away the burden from your heart. You will have peace and you will be healthy. For God, our creator did the same, He forgave us when we repented for our sins.
Only now medical researchers are finding out that forgiveness play an important role in keeping a person well. But christians have known this eversince the time of Jesus Christ as mentioned in the new testament part of the bible. That the individual who has been wronged should forgive the offender.
For christians, this is no big deal. It is part of their religious teaching. But just knowing is not good enough. It must be applied. As is commonly experienced, it is easier to retaliate on the person who has committed the offence rather than to forgive him.
In fact as mentioned in the earlier part of this article, it could become a health problem eventually. By manifesting into physical illness. There was this story about a lady who was very angry with the husband of her daughter. Because he had sold all the properties his mother-inlaw had given to his wife. The old lady could not forgive him.
To the extent that due to her extreme anger, she became physically disabled and could not walk. Until one day, she attended a religious seminar. One of the topic of the talks was unforgiveness. After the talk, there was counselling and she attended that session. She was told to forgive her son-inlaw. But couldn't.
She was asked to do again by asking Jesus to help her. She tried and the counsellor prayed with her. In the end she agreed and forgave him. Once she did that, she felt like a heavy burden was taken away from her. There was peace in her heart and her face was radiant. She was happy and joyful.
The next day at the seminar, everyone was surprise when she walked in. Instead of a wheelchair, she was using her own two legs. And people just wanted to know what happened to her? Forgiveness ! And she told them the story about her son-inlaw.
So always be ready to forgive others. Forgiveness will take away the burden from your heart. You will have peace and you will be healthy. For God, our creator did the same, He forgave us when we repented for our sins.
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