How come we do go to church every Sabbath and recite the Lord’s Prayer and say “Forgive us our sins as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us? (Mathews 6:12)” yet we haven’t.
Should we say that the meaning in this verse is vice versa? How can we ask for forgiveness from God when our hearts are well cemented or painted with hatred?
How can we say “Forgive us our sins as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us” yet we still have many people whom we haven’t forgiven in our lives? Isn’t that lying to God knowingly? Can our prayer be answered by God in doing so? Don’t we feel ashamed of ourselves when we lie to Him in His holy house? Then what is our purpose for His Presence if we cannot fulfil his words?
In conclusion, we should always forgive because forgiveness is like oxygen that everybody uses to inhale peace into our minds and exhales pain out of our hearts. Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offence up against the offender. “Forgiveness is an expression of love,” Gary Chapman.
Forgiveness does not mean what happened was OK and it doesn’t mean that person should still be welcomed in your life. It just means you have made peace with the pain and are ready to let it go. For they say forgiveness is a choice, let us automatically make it a first choice in our hearts. For they say forgiveness is a cure for all the wounds in our lives. Let it be the antidote of the antidotes whenever someone has done something wrong to us or we have done something wrong to others.
For the matter of fact forgiveness is a cure for them wounds in our hearts. You don’t have to walk elsewhere without it like the skin on your body because if you let it go, both sadness and pain will inevitably poison your mind, until your heart burn into ashes.
Last but not least, forgive others as quickly as you expect God to forgive your sins.
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Tell us: How difficult or easy is it for you to forgive someone?