Your Identity in Christ
• In Christ, I am forgiven by my heavenly Father and choose to forgive other people when they sin against me.
For assistance in being a forgiving person, see yourself as a person who is a forgiver. This will help overcome any attitude about not being able to forgive. Try to eliminate the mentality that you can't forgive or won't forgive (ugh!) and replace it with the mentality that you are forgiving and will forgive. We view God as a forgiving God because He identifies Himself that way. In the same manner identify yourself as a forgiving child of God. This aligns exactly with what Jesus teaches us.
Prayer
Father God, I am a forgiving person; I am a child of a forgiving God. I look forward to living out my identity by forgiving those who sin against me just like You forgive me when I sin against you. May You be glorified and all I do including my acts of forgiving. Amen.
Micro-Meditation Scripture
Psalm 139:13-18
- For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb. - I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,
I know that full well. - My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
- Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. - How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is the sum of them! - Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.
Micro-Meditation
Teaching or Command of God
Ephesians 2:10
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
1 John 3:2
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
Micro-Meditation Pondering Point
Oh, what tangled webs we may weave in order to deceive, but God weaves us to receive His love.