Mi Trabajo

I Choose not to Judge them, but to Forgive them

Father, I thank You for the people in my life who seem to bring more pain than joy, for I believe YOU have let our paths cross for important reason. Thank you for the good things You want to do in my life through the things that bother me (their moodiness? their unloving ways? their demands? their insensitivity? their unrealistic expectations? ) I’m grateful that You are with me, to meet my needs when others-even those close to me-fail to do so. I’m so glad that You are also within me, working to make me more like Jesus-more patient, more gentle, more loving-through the very things I dislike.

 

Thank You too that You love these people, and that Your love is adequate to meet their deep needs and transform their lives, however willful or unwise they may sometimes be. Thank You that You care for them deeply, and that each of them has the potential of being a vast reservoir from which You could receive eternal pleasure. And so, though I may not feel grateful, I give thanks for them by faith, trusting Your goodness, Your wisdom, Your power, and Your love for them as well as for me.

And I praise YOU that I need not fret about these people, or be envious, or mull over angry thoughts to prove I’m right. Thank You that by Your power I can receive them as You receive me: just as I am, warts and wrinkles and hang-ups and all…that I can choose not to judge them, but to forgive them…to cancel any debts I feel they owe me – any apologies, any obligations…that through Your grace, I can choose to wipe clean slate of grievances I have within me and a view these people with heart that says, “ You no longer owe me a thing”. Thank You for Your spirit who empowers me, so that I can do them good, delight in You, and commit my way to You, resting in You as You unfold Your good purpose in these relationships – in Your time

I Choose to Thank You for my Weaknesses

 

I choose to thank you for my weaknesses, my infirmities, my inadequacies (physical, mental, emotional, relational) … for the ways I fall short of what people view as ideal… for my feelings of helplessness and inferiority, and even my pain and distresses. What a comport it is to know that you understand the feeling of my weakness… and that in your infinite wisdom you have allowed these in my life so that they may contribute to your high purpose for me.

 
I specifically THANK YOU for :

 
That many time my weaknesses – through my pride and help walk humbly with you…and then, as you’ve promised you give me more grace – You help me and bless and strengthen me. Thank you for all the ways I’m inadequate for they prod me to trust in you and not in myself…and in grateful that my adequacy comes from you

 

Thank you for each disturbing or humbling situation in my life, for each breaking or cleansing process You are allowing, for each problem or hindrance, for each thing that triggers in an anxiety or anger or pain.

 

Thank you also for each difficulty is opportunity to see you work…that in your time you will bring me out to a place of abundance. I rejoice that You plan to enrich and beautify me through each problem, each conflict, each struggle…that through them You expose my weaknesses and needs, my hidden sins, my self-centeredness (and especially my self-reliance and pride).

 

Thank you that You use trials to humble me and perfect my faith and produce in me the quality of endurance…that they prepare the soil of my heart for the flesh new growth in godliness that You and I both long to see in me… and that you momentary troubles are producing for me an eternal glory that far outweighs them all, as I keep my eyes focused on You.

 

Thank You that I can trust You to remove or change any of my weaknesses and handicaps and shortcomings. The moment they are no longer needed for your glory, and for my good, and that in the meantime. I am grateful that You look beyond my superficial desire for trouble-free life; instead, You, enjoy your warm fellowship, and become more like your Son. Your grace is sufficient for me, for your strength is made perfect in my weakness.

"Therefore I am well content with weaknesses with insults, with distress with difficulties, for Christ sake for when  I am strong " ( 2 Corinthians 12 :10)