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Its called the helicopter… powerlifters and olympic lifters know it all to well. It is where the weight comes up and due to imbalance - wether in your body or in your actual balance the bar starts to turn you. the bar starts turning like a helicopter blade…

Forgive - 

Luke 11:4 Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation.’”

interesting fact… 

*There is no comma in the greek (between sentences). This is a structure in the greek that emphasizes that if we do not forgive, we feed the flesh and it becomes a heavy weight… the weight causes us to lean towards sinning/falling.

Like I said at the intro “the helicopter” the weight starts to cause you to bend and move a certain direction… thats what unforgiveness does to us when we hang on to it. The weight of hanging on to the sin… yes I said sin of unforgiveness is just teetering waiting to slowly topple us over. 

My last official powerlifting meet I was in masters division 1, drug free and no gear (meaning no deadlifting suit to help) I was pulling near 700 pounds and it started to helicopter and twist in my hands turning my upper body to the right (typically due to a stronger left leg) Let me tell you, once that weight starts moving in the wrong direction it is hard to control. 

And here in the Lords prayer it says it will cause us to fall into temptation. It will literally pull us into temptation… that doesn’t mean we will necesarrily sin, but I get enough temptation without making it harder on myself… so Im good with forgiving and at least cutting off that element of temptation. 

But check this out… it says lead us not into temptation. 

Lead = look ahead to what it will cause- announce this is what I am doing, and this is where I am heading. When my prof had us write down what would happen if we had an affair. 

If consequences were immediate would we so easily fall into temptation? Twinkie = obese, drink = alcoholic, 

sarcastic remark = divorce 

Forgive, and look for what temptation might bring… and keep slaying giants!