Need emotion controller.

Last Thursday, as an usual working day, I wake up early in the morning and ready to go to office at 5.30 am. As my habit I always turn on my car radio while I am driving. And the quiet time topic on that day was forgiveness. The presenter began by reading the following bible verse.

Reading taken from Matthew 5:38-48 (NIV)

An Eye for an Eye

38 "You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' 39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And if someone want to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. 41 If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. 42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you."

Love for Enemies

43 "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbour and hate your enemy.' 44 But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly father is perfect."

Then the presenter share an experience that wrote by someone. The writer wrote that "it is a challenge to follow God's word to forgive other people when driving a car at a crowded road. When other drivers disobey the traffic sign and take my pathway, I always feel uneasy and irritated. That remind me to my failure to forgive other people who have done something bad to me."

When listen to it, I realised that was another warning and reminder for me too. As I mentioned before in my previous writing some time ago, that the road in Jakarta is really crowded and messy especially if there are a lot of public transport (bus, minibus/mikrolet). The public transport drivers often stop at the middle of the road as they like, so it makes the road clog. The experience that the presenter told is also the part of my every day life or sometime even worse. As I myself, if other people take my pathway, I easilly get mad and sometimes said something bad. Really want to get revenge on that person.

And thankfully I heard the session and be reminded before I've gone to far with my uncontrolled emotion which sometimes may cause a fatal situation on road. I hope I can learn to be more patient and merciful, to forgive other people who have done wrong to me. This experience makes me believe God is guiding me to His way through every event in my everyday life.

Luke 11:4 "Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins againts us".