Sorry I went off into La La Land :-)
Of course none of us are perfect! We all sin and fall short of His glory. As Christians, we have to understand that our Heavenly Father is forgiving, not once or twice, but constantly forgiving. When we wake up every morning, we wake up in a "perfect" state, but as the day progresses we become imperfect and sin has taken over; therefore, we end our days by asking for forgiveness, and He forgives. The imperfection is renewed into a state of perfection. It is so hard to fathom that someone could forgive over and over and over again, and never get tired of forgiving. We can't forgive the person who cut us off in traffic or the person who took that awesome parking spot at the store when they knew that we were waiting for that spot, BUT HE FORGIVES us for saying the horrible words or the gestures directed towards those individuals . We can't forgive the person who didn't pay us back the $5.00 that we let them borrow 10 years ago, BUT HE FORGIVES us for not paying our tithes at all! Hmmm...maybe we should begin to evaluate our system of forgiving and try to implement His way of forgiving into our lives.
Forgiving is a hard pill to swallow, (trust me, I'm just as guilty) because PRIDE holds us hostage to an unforgiving spirit. Well how can you put your pride aside? PRAYER! Hello! That's the first step to overcoming pride. Admit that your pride gets in the way and understand that you can't overcome pride on your own. Then ask Him to help you to forgive others the way that He forgives you. It's that easy!
Read what the Bible says:
Matthew 6:14-15 [NLT]
14 “If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. 15 But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins.
Ready to forgive yet?Matthew 18:21-22 [NLT]21 Then Peter came to him and asked, “Lord, how often should I forgive someone[a] who sins against me? Seven times?” 22 “No, not seven times,” Jesus replied, “but seventy times seven![b]
23 “Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven can be compared to a king who decided to bring his accounts up to date with servants who had borrowed money from him. 24 In the process, one of his debtors was brought in who owed him millions of dollars.[c] 25 He couldn’t pay, so his master ordered that he be sold—along with his wife, his children, and everything he owned—to pay the debt. 26 “But the man fell down before his master and begged him, ‘Please, be patient with me, and I will pay it all.’ 27 Then his master was filled with pity for him, and he released him and forgave his debt. 28 “But when the man left the king, he went to a fellow servant who owed him a few thousand dollars.[d] He grabbed him by the throat and demanded instant payment. 29 “His fellow servant fell down before him and begged for a little more time. ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it,’ he pleaded. 30 But his creditor wouldn’t wait. He had the man arrested and put in prison until the debt could be paid in full. 31 “When some of the other servants saw this, they were very upset. They went to the king and told him everything that had happened. 32 Then the king called in the man he had forgiven and said, ‘You evil servant! I forgave you that tremendous debt because you pleaded with me. 33 Shouldn’t you have mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had mercy on you?’ 34 Then the angry king sent the man to prison to be tortured until he had paid his entire debt. 35 “That’s what my heavenly Father will do to you if you refuse to forgive your brothers and sisters[e] from your heart.”
With Love,
The King's Daughter
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