Forgiveness.

We often doubt that God loves us, or we feel God is angry with us, however God extends the gift of forgiveness the moment we confess and repent and He does so because He loves us so. There are times we ask for forgiveness over and over again, but God’s not deaf. He heard us the first time we asked. It’s the enemy who tries to steal our identity and we have to block his tactics.

We’re not perfect. We're never going to be perfect. We are going to make mistakes and we are going to need to ask God’s forgiveness; many times over, for we will need Hs forgiveness right throughout our lives.

Every morning is a new day; a new day to love, a new day to stand in His presence and a new day to move forward should we have messed up yesterday. If you’re constantly feeling guilty for past sins that you’ve repented of, you’re not giving God His right and just place. 

Jesus died for you and to not accept His forgiveness, He may as well not have gone through that tragic and painful ordeal. It’s a slap in the face to Him when you don’t allow His healing balm of forgiveness to work in your life. 

You’ll never be able to fully live within God’s plan for your life while you’re rejecting His forgiveness. Constantly reliving past sins keeps you locked within them. God’s mercy and grace is extended to all. It is unearned merit and favour. 

Just as God extends mercy and grace to us, we too must extend the same to those who’ve hurt and mistreated us. Does that mean we have to stay and endure more of the same? No. We can forgive and sometimes we must move on and let go. What we must not do, is harbour resentment, for resentment leads to bitterness and bitterness causes illness to the mind, body and soul. 

Jesus spoke often of the need to forgive and that’s because it’s just as important to us is it is to the one who hurt us. Forgiveness is an unnatural act, after all, you never see other animals doing it and in the act of forgiveness prison doors open, so ask Jesus to help you attain forgiveness. 

We’re not perfect. No one around us is perfect and the mark of a man/woman of God is the speed at which they forgive. If you’re finding it difficult to forgive, ask God to extend His grace that you may do so.