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The Audacity
Audacity: Means to be daring or willing to take bold risks.
CHAPTER 9: THE AUDACITY “Audacity,” defined in simple form simply means to be daring or willing to take bold risks.
It is having the nerve to do something.
It is going against the grain regardless of what others think.
One who is audacious is shameless and bold.
This individual has a type of impudence about himself.
He thinks outside of what is conventional and is not withheld by any restrictions.
◦ Forgiving requires one to be audacious, especially with those offenses that otherwise would not be forgiven.
◦ Forgiveness also requires faith believe it or not.
We have to have faith in God that He will be able to heal us of the effects of the offense.
I personally, believe that the effects of the actual offense are what make it so hard to forgive in the first place.
If we could just have the faith that God will heal us of those effects, we could ultimately forgive.
Things like anger, hurt, and the resentment make it hard to let the offense go.
You have to have the audacity to seek the Father for that healing.
Jesus tells a story of the impudent person
He tells of the individual who has a friend that has come to his house and is in need of food.
He has no food to give him so he goes to his friend’s house to ask for food.
The friend agrees to give him bread, but not because of their friendship.
He gives him the bread because his friend had the nerve, the audacity, to knock on his door in the middle of the night and ask for it.
He gives his friend something that the other friend needs, which is food.
Like the friend who gave the bread, God will give you more if you ask.
He will give you all that you need, including healing from the hurt of the offense.
He will give you the ability to forgive your offender if you ask.
It takes courage to forgive.
When Jesus spoke to his disciples about forgiving offense, His disciples immediately asked Jesus to increase their faith
You literally have to face the offense and the issues that resulted from the offense.
◦ This, more times than not, requires you to revisit the offense.
◦ You may have to revisit the feelings and the emotions attached to the offense.
◦ It can require many things that you may not be ready to deal with.
◦ It takes courage to put someone who has hurt you before yourself.
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◦ Notice the friend in Luke did not ask for food for himself.
He obviously needed food.
He asked for food to give his friend that had visited.
You literally have to put your feelings aside for a moment in order to take the first step in forgiving.
You may want to do just the opposite, but what good would that do?
It will do nothing for you or them.
They may feel the heat of your wrath, but what good is that when you are feeling the heat also?
You may even find pleasure in seeing them hurt, but it will not erase the pain in your heart.
So what do you do?
It is easier said than done, but you forgive them and let the offense go.
I can recall a night about 11 years ago.
I had just left my therapist’s office.
During that visit, I had done what is known as re-experience therapy.
This type of therapy is generally used on individuals who have been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and/ or who have repressed memories.
It uses guided imagery to take the individual back to an experience in order to provide clinical or mental relief.
During this particular session, I recall being taken back to the age of five.
I remember hearing my therapist’s voice as he guided me back to that moment in time.
I was lead back to the house where the molestation took place.
It was grey and dreary.
It was cold and filled with a moist moldy odor.
I walked down a long hallway, passing the restroom to my right, a bedroom to my right, and another bedroom to my left.
As I approached the room straight ahead of me, I was stopped by my offender.
That was an experience I never want to relive.
The sight of my offender pumped a fear in me that was like none I had ever experienced.
To remember that moment was too painful for me and I quickly opened my eyes.
The session was cut short and I left.
I intended to kill myself that night.
I had it all planned out.
I would leave my children with my parents and end my life.
I just could not face my offender, not in that capacity.
Well, my plans were foiled when at the last minute I got invited to go to church.
During that service, the choir sang a song.
Some of the lyrics of the song talked about praising God regardless of what we go through.
It talked about praise that I never thought I could ever give.
I just did not feel worthy to praise God.
Especially after all that I had gone through.
I will never forget this, but at that time in the service it was as if the Heavens opened up.
I saw a vision of Jesus standing with His arms wide open.
He told me that if I would just praise Him, He would heal me.
In the vision, I had my hands clasped together and told Him that I could not give Him what I was holding.
He told me to give it Him and that He would make everything better.
He told me to trust Him; to have faith in Him and that if I would do that my life would never be the same.
I trusted Him that night with the little faith that I had and my life has never been the same.
You have to have that same faith, that same audacity.
Jesus will not take what you are holding on to.
You have to give it to Him.
It takes faith, but Jesus said that is all you need.
All that is required is the faith that is the size of a mustard seed in order to take the first step.
Will you take that step?
LOVING ABOVE
In order to forgive there has to be a different type of love, one that is the complete opposite of what the world has to offer.
For example, the world’s type of love is conditional.
Once an individual fails to meet the condition, they forfeit the world’s love.
We see it all of the time.
The movie star that was once beyond famous during his prime has lost all notoriety now that he is older or the once millionaire loses family and friends once he has lost all of his money.
To love the way God loves, one must be able to overlook one’s faults and love above another person’s faults.
We must be able to look past what an individual has actually done and see something greater than them.
admonishes us to love each other “above all” because love covers a multitude of sins.
Multitude is synonymous to a swarm.
If you think of a swarm of bees in an area, love, God’s love, covers that many sins.
You may be thinking, “How can I love someone that much?
You don’t know what they have done to me.
You don’t know how he or she hurt me.”
The answer may be simpler than you think.
If you are a believer (if you are not, I trust that you will be by the end of this book), the Bible says that the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us ().
Well, what does this mean?
This means that there is a love that actually exists in the dark places of our hearts.
There is a love that, once we know how, can be tapped into and will allow us to love and forgive.
Jesus endured a multitude of things all for our sake, yet He still forgave us.
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