Saturday, September 25, 2010

NO ONE is more Forgiving

It's DJ everyone! how is everything? (before i get started, this post is LONG, so just be aware)
So i had this spontaneous idea after my last post titled, "NOTHING is more valueble." Notice how NOTHING is in all caps and is the first word in the posts title. I decided to start a series, showing and explaining how NOTHING or NO ONE is more ___ (u fill in the blank) than God. now that i've explained this, time to start the message.

We're watching this film in Religion class called "Five people you meet in Heaven" and it's about this guy who dies and is now in heaven and five people he encounters each have a message to tell him involving a significant event in his life, and one of them has a message of Forgivness. But, as a matter of fact, this is a timely message to me because something happened recently where i was hurt by one of my friends. and that something is:

I wanted to ask this girl to homecoming. Now i went to homecoming with her last year, but that was when i hadn't decided my feelings for her. so we go to homecoming and have an awesome time. the year goes by and we still talked and hung out occasionally. This year, i'm trying to decide who i want to ask, and my friend also asks me who i'm asking and i say "either a girl from Sky Ranch (yes ladies, i mean one of you , HAHA) or the girl i went with last year." Throughout all of last year, i was in an awkward period of my life, and I dont know why i did this, but i was praying for a girlfriend. But now i relize what i was praying for was something to put my IDENTITY in (thank u for teaching me this message guys).
After all of this, I start praying this:
"Hey God, who do i like?"
Just last night around 7:30, something hit me. i realize that i was asking a question God couldn't answer. I kept asking this over and over again but i now know that I was the only one who HAD the answer, or COULD answer that question.
So i pray:
"God, i now understand I ALONE hold the answer."
and the answer is YES
i decide i'm going to ask her to HC the next time i SEE her (pay attention to the SEE) . After this i'm playing xbox with my friends (around 9:oo) and one of them drops a side comment "Hey i asked the girl Dj went with last year" (btw, the girl i asked last year knows all my friends so she's friends with them too)
I GET FURIOUS. really it was just a misunderstanding between my friend and I, but i was still mad. He didn't know i decided to asked her to HC, and they're going just as friends. And then i told him this: (note: the 'fill in the blank' parts are words i would rather not say)
"Listen for a _____ minute! I was going to ask her to HC the next time i SEE, rather than ___ call her and ask. I was going to ask her so that when we were at HC, i was gonna try to ASK HER OUT!!!
My friend understood that i was angry and said he was sorry, but i didn't care. i didn't want to play anymore after and just decided to go to bed. i open sit on my bed just wondering:
There's got to be something God is telling me." And there was!
Trying to forget what happened, i think about my day. i think about religion and the video we were watching, about the part where its about FORGIVNESS. I remember one qoute from that part:
"Hate is only formed inside of us from what we dont choose to say ourselves. Forgiveness is freedom from hate, freedom from anxieties. When you forgive, you are set free."
I'm just gonna say that when i remembered this, it hit harder than a wrecking ball. I have forgiven my friend, and i'm gonna tell him this the next time i c him. Here's one of my favorite videos one Forgiveness: Part 1-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT8U8Us3Qts&feature=related Part 2-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6LRrq8A12A&feature=related (PLEASE WATCH BOTH)
I'm gonna leave u guys today with two pieces of advice: 1. Look back at my story, how the timeliness of this message shows how God's says everything He wants us to know at EXACTLY the right time
2: I urge you guys from now on, to Forgive and Forget and Be Free.
-DJ

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