Wednesday, January 28, 2009
We have a forgiving God........
Hebrews10:17 says:I will never again remember there sins and their lawless acts. This is just amazing to me, that when we go to Jesus and ask him to forgive us of our sins He forgets and never once more remembers again.. He wipes them clean away. Is this not an awesome God? Many times we feel as though we have done so many things wrong, and lived so badly that Jesus would never accept us. Sometimes we feel why would he want me? We forget that Jesus loves everyone, and nothing is ever too bad to come to Jesus, He will open His arms, and hold us, and when we ask, He will wash away our sins. We can come to Jesus just as we are, He will do the rest. Once we give Him our love, he teaches us, and shows us who we are to be. He shows us our purpose and His plan for our lives if we only follow. He gave us a wonderful example of forgivness. Why if Jesus can forgive us so easily when we call out to him, why then is it so hard for us to forgive others? Why do we seem to keep a list of all the wrongs, and seem to remember them just like it happened yesterday? If we cannot forgive, Jesus cannot forgive us. Are we more important than Jesus? Have we suffered more or been hurt more than Jesus? During Jesus' crusifiction He called out and said " Forgive them for they know not what they do". Why cant we do that? I want to have a forgiving heart like Jesus, I want to lay it all down and never pick up those hurts again. I want to forgive and forget, just as He does for us. He gave us our greatest example to follow. When we choose not to forgive and forget, we arent just hurting that other person, we are hurting ourselves, and most of all we are hurting Jesus, the one who gave His life for us. Should we not forget about "me" and concentrate on HIM? Who do you need to forgive.......