Making Amends – Proverbs 14:9
Fools mock at making amends for sin, but goodwill is found among the upright.
Have you ever done something wrong to someone? After you offended them and it was brought to your attention, what did you do? Did you blow it off and say to yourself “Oh. It wasn’t that big of a deal?” It may not have been to you, but does that really matter? I mean, you weren’t the one who was wronged.
Pride can be what keeps us from apologizing to someone. However, if a brother is offended, we’re suppose to go and make it right. According to Matthew 5:23-24, we’re suppose to make amends for what we did wrong.
Regardless of how small you feel the offense was, we are still obligated to make things right. Now it’s different if that brother or sister doesn’t want to make things right. But that doesn’t void your responsibility to at least try. You still have to do your part in making it right. If they choose to hold on to unforgiveness, that’s up to them.
Yeshua said we are to do this if we are offering our gift and then “remember” we offended someone. Have you ever remembered something like that? Of course you have. What did you do with that thought? I believe if we all just sat down for a few moments, it wouldn’t take long for a list to grow of the times we know we offended someone. Can you imagine what could happen in the body of Messiah if we all truly repented to one another of those sins as we are commanded?
9 Fools mock at making amends for sin, but goodwill is found among the upright.
Let this be a focus in your time of meditation throughout today. Until next time, Shalom.
SOURCE: Steve Moutria at TorahFamily.org (Posted with permission)
https://torahfamily.org/making-amends-proverbs/
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It's important to think through at least once a day to see if there is someone whom you have not forgiven. Holding a grudge is not for the righteous.
The Most High is ultimate righteousness and He does not hold a grudge. But someone would say "What about the Canaanites, etc whom God commanded Israel to eradicate!"
Even when the Most High commanded the elimination of the depraved nations in and around the land of Canaan for their wickedness, He still allowed Rahab from Jericho and Ruth from Moab to be grafted into Israel, not holding a grudge against these nations but seeking reconciliation, showing goodwill towards a depraved people, that they would repent.
I believe that just as Nineveh was sent prophets for reconciliation, the nations in and around Canaan were sent prophets from the Most High to seek reconciliation, giving them ample time to repent. God did His part to make things right, but...
On a much largert scale, Yeshua came for reconciliation to all the nations of the world and His Father who sent him has given us ample time to repent. We have offended the Creator of the Universe, yet He has gone to extreme lengths to make amends with us, even allowing the death of His own Son for our sakes!
God went to these who has offended Him and forgave them 7x70 times a day, to try to make things right, just as He instructs us to do as well. But the nations held on to their unforgiveness and those who refuse to repent will ultimately have to pay every penny. God will say to them:
good post happy sukkot (this is enosh )
Thanks man...why the new account if I can ask?
don't really know to be honest, just wanted to try something new and see if it works. I still plan on using enosh although i have not been active as of late