Saturday 2 March 2024

Choosing Forgiveness


 
As I pondered upon how the apostle Paul said, “Brothers and sisters, if a person is caught doing something wrong, you who are spiritual should restore someone like this with a spirit of gentleness” (Galatians 6:1, CEB), I thank God for reminding me that I need to forgive someone who had fallen into the nature of sin like broken and dislocated bones, and for me to gently restore him/her with meekness and encourage the person to turn himself/herself from his/her carnal flesh system in which it tempts him/her to sin that he/she has been living in the past, and for the person to repent hiss/her sin away so that he/she can live and walk freely in the Spirit (Galatians 5:25, CEB) as a free person today while I reflected upon my Lenten’s meditation.

Today, I choose to forgive someone as I reach out to this person who has once lived a sinful life yet waiting to be freed by God’s grace as I reach out + love him/her with tender mercy and with compassionate heart flowing from within me. By this, I choose to speak words of encouragement into his/her heart and restore him/her gently to believing faith in Christ. Truly, I believe that we can either choose to be bitter person and to place blame upon someone else or we can choose to reach out with loving arms to lift up our brothers and sisters in Christ when they stumble down to sin.

How can you offer the grace of Christ to fellow believers today?

Profile Background:
Jeremy Koh is a disabled graduate from Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore – formerly known as Spastic Children Association (1987–1997). He graduated with Certificates in Microsoft Office Skills & a HR Administrator Graduate (CHRA) under Human Capital Singapore–SGEnable Collaboration of Partnership – HCS HR PowerBank (7th Dec 2021 to 3rd June 2022) | Former Project Assistant/Email Marketing Consultant |A Connecter in ServeHope Pte Ltd & GrowthBeans Team in Savior-Asia Consulting Pte Ltd | A KeyGuard Specialist @(these)abilites Pte Ltd handling all KeyGuard Operations for 10 months in World United College South East Asia (Tampines Branch) | an Executive Assistant with Vision Strategy Storytelling (3 months, Aug to Oct 2017); A Founder in the ground up initiative project called – Project Stories for LIFE (Affiliated with Youth Corps Singapore, a former member of the Special Needs Cluster) |A PwD Advocate – a representing voice of the Disabled Community to the public today.

Prayer Response to this featured article:
Thank you Jesus for being merciful God, for your unending grace + loving us no matter how many times we fail. Help us to extend your love to our brothers and sisters today.

(Written by Jeremy Koh, 26th February 2023)

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