“But there is forgiveness with thee..”~ Psa. 130:4
Jesus said it is a wicked person who has been forgiven, but refuses to do the same for another. Each of us ought to be fighting for first place in line when it has to do with forgiving others. But most of us drop back to the end of the queue when we come face to face with forgiving ourselves. We’ll forgive others 490 times, but will not forgive ourselves once.
To be sure, a person who longs for, and cries out daily for forgiveness in their own life, should be granted it. That is, coming from themselves. God freely forgives us, yet we deny that same person forgiveness. I like the way C.S. Lewis puts it: “I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
There is nothing but misery where one party will not forgive the other. So, why not forgive yourself, start new, and cease from that miserable life you’re living? After all, you have probably forgiven others of much worse things.
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”~ Lewis B. Smedes
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