Have you ever wronged someone?
Of course you have.
Did you realize it at the time?
Most likely not.
Did you realize it later in life? Whether an hour, a week, or 2 years, or 10 years later?
When you realized what you had done, regardless of the other person's part in it, what did you decide to do?
What would Jesus do?
Would He have shunned the humiliation of the cross because we denied Him, to save our own behind? To save face? To not be inconvenienced?
No. He went to the cross. Because He loved God, His Father. For the sake of the future. Your future, His future, our future.
Taking ownership of our wrongs and doing the right thing, regardless of another's part in it, sets us free.
There is no guarantee that the others involved will accept our gift or act in any way upon it, but I can tell you this: Your heavenly Father will be pleased with you and release you from any tendrils that clung to you from your past wrong that are choking you or tripping you up in the present.
Wherever it is possible, wherever we are aware (and God will know when you're pretending to be ignorant, and really it won't help your life to go on like that), let us right our wrongs. It may be that all we can do is confess it to God and ask His forgiveness. It may be that He will provide opportunity for us to speak with apology to those we've wronged. It may be that we are able to do more than apologize, we may even be able to correct the wrong.
Whatever we can do, let us own our wrongs, for the sake of others, for the sake of ourselves, for the sake of the future.
Love,
M
