Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, if my brother keeps on sinning against me, how many times do I have to forgive him? Seven times?”
Matthew 18:21 GNBDC
Why, then, do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, and pay no attention to the log in your own eye?
Matthew 7:3 GNBDC
No matter who you are, you will at some point in life hurt because of what someone else does to you. And mind you this begins from the ones closest, it may be your parents, your siblings, your best friends, your work mates or even your some you don't directly know. There are two ways this hurt can go; one is, it goes to the recess of your heart and festers there into resentment and unforgiveness or two, it is expressed to God and the person and forgotten. Now most often we tend to choose the former because we tend to think of ourselves as righteous. But know one thing, God knows everything. As difficult it may seem to forgive we ought to let go, because unforgiveness is like holding burning coal in your own hand, it's does nothing to the other but instead it only wounds and hurts you.
Perhaps an easier exercise to help forgive would be as Jesus says, "to look into our own eyes" and see the number of times we failed God by our own disobedience and sin. Do we deserve God's forgiveness? yet then God chooses to forgive... How much more we ought to forgive those than sin against us then ?
I pray that the Grace of God move your heart and fill you with His unconditional Love giving you the Grace in Christ Jesus to Forgive. And May the Holy Spirit bear in you the it's Fruits. Amen
God Bless you and your loved ones:)
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