Forgiveness: A topic that I have been having on-going conversations with my students about. This was birthed out of the theme God has firmly pressed on my heart lately.
Forgiveness (October 20, 2017)
What will you do to make amends?
What can you do to make things
right again?
Looking at my life that has
fallen apart
How on earth can I grant you a
brand new start?
The pain you inflicted,
A heart left broken and
stricken,
Unless you plead and beg for
forgiveness
The bitterness grows in the name
of unfinished business.
So here I am, prisoner, to
bitter shame,
I suffer from grievous
depression and I assign you most the blame.
But what if I can experience
true healing,
A wholeness that transcends all
feelings?
I don’t possess grace, like God,
my Savior,
But with His mercy and strength
I seek His favor
In forgiving you without need of
amends,
For I, myself, have experienced
freedom from God’s forgiveness that has no end.
Lord, give me healing and let me
set them free,
So I will have the freedom to
simply be who You created me to be.
Alive in Your presence and
washed by Your blood,
Let Your healing and mending
descend like a flood.
For holding on to this
bitterness has done me no good.
I had to steep deep in Your
grace and then I understood,
That forgiveness truly sets the
captives free,
So may I willingly extend that grace to others
and find healing only found in Thee.
Joy Lynn
