Matthew 6:14-15 TPT
"And when you pray, make sure you forgive the faults of others so that your Father in Heaven will also forgive you. [15] But if you withhold forgiveness from others, your Father withholds forgiveness from you."
A wise Holocaust survivor was recently recounting his experiences in the concentration camps and ghettos.
He highlighted the importance of letting go of hatred. He said that hatred can't change those who have wronged us, but will poison our own lives.
As I Iooked at his clear blue eyes shining with kindness and not clouded with anger, I realised he was free of the past via forgiveness.
There are always a hundred earthly reasons why not to let go of anger and to harbour unforgiveness.
But there's one unique heavenly reason why I need to forgive - Jesus supplied that reason on the Cross.
There, on the Cross He absorbed every single sin and wrong committed - past, present and future - so we (me included) are enabled to pass that forgiveness on - as we bask in the amazing forgiveness extended to us (yes to me too).
The two way street of forgiveness is often like the road we faced recently. Just one van badly parked clogged up the road way back into town. The traffic couldn't flow because it was it was blocking one lane.
Maybe there's a person or an incident that's blocking the two way flow of forgiveness because we've "parked" resentment or anger in the way?
I say to my own self - move that road block and let me be free from it - others will be free too.
May I always remember the one Heavenly reason to forgive and be forgiven.
Psalm 32:6 TPT
This is what I've learned through it all: All believers should confess their sins to God; do it every time God has uncovered you in the time of exposing. For if you do this, when sudden storms of life overwhelm, you'll be kept safe.
Any white resentment vans badly parked in my heart?
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