“When a relationship is broken, the injured party is the only one who can heal it because only the injured can forgive.”

A thought by Leonard Sweet, (2012-03-13) from his book, What Matters Most: How We Got the Point but Missed the Person (Kindle Locations 2277-2278). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.

So many don’t really realize it but the most important thing in our lives is our relationships. God showed that by His creating us so He could have a relationship with us and Christ showed that by His coming to earth. Adam our representative broke the relationship with God and Christ came to heal it through His death.

Now that is also true with us and our broken relationships with others. Remember how Jesus said, “Father… forgive us the wrongs we have done”, that is healing our relationship with God, “as we forgive the wrongs others have done to us”, that deals with our broken relationship with others.

That means in order for us to have a relationship with God we need to ask for forgiveness of our rejection of Him and also the wrongs, the sins we have done against Him. Then we are to forgive those who have wronged us. We are responsible to heal those relationships and it also means that we are to ask for forgiveness of those whom we have wronged. Forgiveness is a major part of our relationships because we are not perfect and they are not perfect, only God is perfect.

Now the practicality of this is if you have wrong or injured someone, it is not up to them to come to you. It is your responsibility to go to them because “the injured party is the only one who can heal it because only the injured can forgive.”

Remember, “when a relationship is broken, the injured party is the only one who can heal it because only the injured can forgive.”

Now it is important to also note that Jesus said, “Father forgive us…AS we have forgiven…other…” His forgiveness of our hurting Him is also dependent upon our forgiving those who have hurt us.

So how are your relationships going?

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