Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Forgive

Forgive and be set free


Forgiveness is key to living a more fulfilling life. When we forgive we are enabled to have healthy relationships, have a more positive sense of self and be a happier person over all. It can be hard to do but is so worth it once it is accomplished.
Forgiving others

"Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved." (Psalm 55:22)

     How can living in unforgiveness negatively affect our lives? When a person is unforgiving of another that person is carrying "spiritual weight". Some people call this "baggage". This baggage can make us noticable unhappy and unable to grow and mature as a person.This is a person who does not forgive another person who has hurt them in the past. Let's say this person is an ex boyfriend or girlfriend who cheated. The person who fails to forgive still harbors anger for this person not able to trust the next boyfriend or girlfriend. A relationship without trust is speeding in the wrong direction and headed for distruction. It is like a domino effect. I don't trust you so I will check your phone for number, question you, and accuse you. Nothing good comes out of this action. One of two things can happen in this situation: The boyfriend or girlfriend will get tired of bring accused and leave or actually cheat. And it repeats itself in the next relationship.

It is best to have and "I-am-stronger-and-better-because-of-it" kind of attitude.Realize when that person hurt you in the past you learned something new in that situation. It made you more wise. So see, When you don't forgive the person who hurt you lost. If you do forgive the person who hurt you won and they lost.

Forgiving yourself

"There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus ..." (Romans 8:1)

Sometimes in life we do things that we are not proud of. This could be any action that we blame ourself for. It could be pain that we caused another person. Whatever It is important to not only learn from that experience and never do it again. But it is equally important to forgive ourselves as well. If we live life not forgiving ourself we could have a bad self image. This could be feelings of guilt, feelings that we are inferior, feelings of low self esteem amd thoughts that we could never be a good person. We must not condemn ourselves. God forgives us when we ask for forgiveness. We have a clean from that point on. Does this give us a free ticket to sin? Absolutely not! but it does give us asecond chance to live a higher quality of life

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