Love is patient and forgiving.

Love is not easily angered, keeps no record of sin
 1 Cor 13:5b

Love is not easily angered, means, love has a very long rope that it extends and is even tempered.  It means, it does not snap at others, it does not raise its voice easily, it is patient with people and would not raise its hand at because it is provoked.  If love was a man, it would be a gentleman and if a woman, it would be a lady.

It means that love is not hot tempered.  It means that others wouldn’t have to walk on eggs around you.  There are people that you are always careful around, always choosing your words carefully with because you know they are easily angered.  Makes people tired being around them all the time because they always have to put a measuring tape on their words and actions around them all the time.  Nobody can be free to be themselves around them.

 Love is not easily angered means you are accommodating and understanding of others even when they are always stepping on your toes.  You don’t jump to conclusions and you give people the benefit of a doubt.

Love keeps no record of sin means it does not put a marker on the number of times it has been hurt to keep a reminder that it can’t trust.   As long as we are alive people will offend and hurt us, yet Jesus knowing that told us to forgive as much as    70 x 7 times in a day to each  person.

It means that it’s not vindictive. It does not plot and plan to sabotage because of wrongs done it.  It is not vengeful, it does not pay back wrong with wrong, or good with wrong. Instead it pays back evil with good.

It does not hold grudges.  It means it does not say in its heart, I'm never going to forgive that person, either am I going to forget the hurt they bestowed on me.  It does not lie in wait for the day it will have the opportunity to payback.  It means that when offended, it forgives and forgets. It doesn’t say I will forgive but I will never forget.

Joy, who is a born again Christian became seriously sick and went to a healing service believing for a miracle, but for months, she was not healed.  Then Joy's neighbour Lydia, who wasn’t born again, got sick as well but when the prayer of faith was said for Lydia, she got her healing instantly.  Joy was disappointed and went to see the minister to ask why she as a believer didn’t receive her healing. As she spoke, the lord ministered to the minister and the minister asked Joy if the neighbour was a forgiving person.  Joy replied yes, she said Lydia and her family are the most forgiving people she has ever met.  That family, according to Joy would easily let go, never hold grudges and forgive as if they were not offended to begin with.

The minister then said that is why Lydia was healed.   Joy broke down and said ‘Pastor, my family and I don’t know how to forgive; we hold grudges and never let go!’

 Being unforgiving and holding of grudges hold back your good health and your healing.  It pollutes your body and mind and places you at a place where you are unable to receive any good thing; including love and healing.

In the end, it only poisons you and stands in your way of living in divine health.

Remember, Love forgives, and love is not easily angered.


Written by Aba Dadson




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