Betrayal

The most difficult pain is that of betrayal. Accepting and continuing to love those who are betraying you is a very difficult human task. The people who are betraying you are also those whom you must forgive and continue to love—because ‘Love is forgiveness’; a difficult concept. Loving those who betray you does not mean you must trust them again or keep them in close proximity to you. Harboring anger, resentment, and choosing to not forgive those who have betrayed you is harmful and destructive to you and will be carried over and over and over again as unhealed emotional baggage that will adversely affect your future relationships.

Continuing to love someone, such as a family member or friend who has betrayed you, isn’t an easy task. However, choosing to not forgive them —- having a hard heart toward those who have betrayed you, keeps you, the betrayed, in bondage and a slave to your emotional pain. There is a way to deal with betrayal in a way that will in time, heal you, and keep your heart open to love, and in a state of Grace. How many times must we forgive others? “Jesus said, 7 times 70 times, we must forgive our betrayers… Matthew 18:21-22

Forgiveness begins with you, the betrayed or offended, by choosing to love yourself enough to experience the love of God and to rest in His love by experiencing a personal encounter with Jesus Christ, via the Holy Spirit …and then accepting God’s absolute mercy, grace, and forgiveness, and for one reason, because He loves you more than you can ever imagine… and you can be sure of this by the blood of Christ and message of ‘The Cross’. <3