Sin Bounces?

Colossians 3:13 Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
(I share these wise words from my husband):

Colossians 3:13, like in many other verses, God commands us to forgive each other. It goes to the extreme to say that if we want our sins forgiven we must forgive those who sin against us, so forgiveness is the Key.

I believe that if we want to destroy sin we have to forgive, let me explain...
Do you remember as a child playing with one of those high density rubber balls? I think it was call “a super ball", and it will bounce from wall to wall and it seemed to go on forever, well sin is like that… it will keep on bouncing from person to person.

When I learned to play soccer as a boy one of the hardest techniques to learn was to be able to stop the ball with your chest and drop it at your feet, it's called "kill the ball".

Imagine a large soccer ball traveling 50 yards at 20 miles/hr. and you have to stop it with your chest, well the first few times it bounced far and out of control and it caused a bit of pain but I learned that by softening my chest at the moment of impact the ball would not bounce and will drop at my feet.
This then was not as painful… I had learned to "kill the ball".

When a person sins against us and if we don't forgive right away that sin will bounce back immediately to the person who sins against us in a form of an insult or retaliation from our response or we might retaliate and take it out on the next person that crosses our path even sometimes a loved one. (the sin keeps bouncing).

Let me give you an example:

Someone at work, at a store or (my favorite) on the road in this Houston traffic, insults you, treats you bad or cuts in front of you as he expresses with his hand you are #1, in other words sins against you…

When this happens you retaliate. Most likely if it's your boss you will react with the next person that crosses your way, or sometimes you will come home and bounce all that sin on your wife and kids for no reason at all. The sin that began with that one incident has now bounced back on several people….

My point? Forgiveness will soften the blow (Kill the blow and bounce it off your chest to the floor) this will stop the sin from bouncing from one to another in other words "kill the sin". Let the sin that others bounce to you fall on your soft chest (answer in kind or immediately forgive) and let it fall to the floor. In essence killing the sin and therefore not allowing that sin to bounce on and on to others.

Jesus, as He died on the cross gave us the best example of all; He took the sin of this world, my sin and your sin and forgave us, He destroy our sin and it fell at the feet of the cross to be wash away by his blood. "He killed our sin".

FORGIVE.

Harold Galdamez