The Most Difficult Apology

I believe the most difficult apology is one where the person you apologize too doesn't return an apology for their own wrong doing. It can be so frustrating and humiliating to be the only one taking responsibility for your actions.

But I believe that this is also one of the greatest acts of being Christlike.  To be truly sorry shouldn't be contingent upon the others persons apology or change of behavior.  It should be solely based upon wanting to be free of the offense as well as setting the other person free. I often think of the greatest example of this was when Christ was hanging on the cross before he died. He looked at the men at the foot of the cross who were mocking him, beat him and hung him there and looked up to his Heavenly Father and said.. Father forgive them for they don't know what they're doing. There was no apology from those men to Jesus and He he didn't say to God what he said hoping to get an apology. He said to God what he did because he wanted them to be free. He put their lives ahead of his own.

 I am learning that in this walk with Christ it is not at all the way I expected it to be. In order to have humility you have to go through a lot of humiliation. I believe Jesus did just that over and over while he walked this Earth. Daily we must be crucified in the flesh in order to be more like Jesus.

Brittany Benedict