If it is your custom to always revisit the wrongs of people, you never forgave them no matter how loud you scream you have forgiven them.
God said; “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.”
—Hebrews 8:12; KJV
True forgiveness expresses the two sides of the coin -forgiving and forgetting. It lasts forever, no wrong from the person being forgiven is capable of resurrecting the past offense.
Even if they keep repeating the same offense just days after being forgiven, you don’t recount the previous wrong, you forgive and forget the present. Sounds tough right? But it is extremely possible, if not God will not be able to truly forgive us.
Many believe that on the last day, God will judge them by showing them their sins, ruling and dividing their past wrong; if God does this, then he never forgave us our sins. But I know this is not the character of God, he forgives and never remembers our sins because it is his nature to do so.
Before you do the “he is God” move again, remember this; if God ask us to forgive, then he knows we are capable of forgiving like him.
This is true because as Christians we have this ability, we have the very nature of God that makes this possible.
“By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature.”
2 Peter 1:4 AMPC
Note, he has bestowed on us these promises. It is ours already, one of which is his divine nature.
So friends, we have the divine nature of God, we have his ability to truly forgive. We are those who forgive and forget all who wrongs us.
If “to err is human and to forgive is divine” then you are divine and true forgiveness is yours to give.
Let go of that grudge, bitterness and unforgivable wrong done to you. You can, it is your nature to.
Don’t deny your nature.
I know you have said “you will never forgive” or “I have forgiven but will never forget”.
You said so because you knew less, now you know better. Let go of that hurt and be divine.
GO ACHIEVE
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