Wednesdays Word....Forgiven

I feel like I've been outta sorts not realizing it was actually Wednesday until just a few moments ago and started rummaging around my mind to figure out what to share with you today. Our small group at church has been reading through Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis and one of the chapters we covered this week was #7 in book 3 titled Forgiveness. I had also been asked about this very subject just a week or so ago too so it must be what I'm too share.

Forgiving someone is probably the toughest thing we ever have to do because it goes against our human nature. Especially as Christians because if you take the Lord's Prayer to heart then you understand that you can't be forgiven ourselves unless we forgive others....the trespass part isn't talking about your front yard. And to top it off once you do forgive them you can never use that against them...unless they do it again but then again we are commanded to forgive them 70 x 7 times. Most importantly though if you don't forgive someone the bitterness, resentment and anger can consume you and slowly destroy you. So don't harden your heart and waste a year let alone 20 being eaten up by out of control emotions; take the steps now to find a way to forgive and a be a light to those around you.

So I typed forgive into my iTunes search and low and behold it brought up Sanctus Real. And it just so happens to be that I'll be seeing them in concert next week to open up the grand stand concerts at the Iowa State Fair along with Casting Crowns. How cool is it...that our state fair for the last 5 or 6 years has had  a Christian act open the fair. The even cooler thing...they're the highest attended each year.

So pay attention to the lyrics of this song (or skip down below...I'll post them for you). But it's a pretty cinematically cool video too that just so happens to touch on chapter 8.


Well the past is playing with my head
And failure knocks me down again
I’m reminded of the wrong
That I have said and done
And that devil just wont let me forget

In this life
I know what I’ve been
But here in your arms
I know what I am

I’m forgiven
I’m forgiven
And I don’t have to carry
The weight of who I’ve been
Cause I’m forgiven

My mistakes are running through my mind
And I’ll relive my days, in the middle of the night
When I struggle with my pain, wrestle with my pride
Sometimes I feel alone, and I cry

In this life
I know what I’ve been
But here in your arms
I know what I am

When I don't fit in and I don’t feel like I belong anywhere
When I don’t measure up to much in this life
Oh, I’m a treasure in the arms of Christ ‘cause