Forgiving and Forgetting

To forgive someone is easily said but is for most difficult to do. Why is it so hard to forgive others? Is it because we ourselves are in pain? I think this might be the most common factor, is our pain. Someone else has managed to hurt us by some means and now we can't forgive. However if we do forgive them are we able to forget. I will offer this piece of advice we are human and flawed which makes it hard to easily forgive and forget.

Just think we make mistakes, fail, and disappoint God every day but He forgives and forgets without any thought to what it was we did. All we have to do is ask for that forgiveness and it is granted to us. We don't have to do anything but ask and we are forgiven. I find that unbelievable. If someone asked me to forgive them and they did something that truly hurt me I would want to make them pay, make them beg, but God doesn't do any of that.

1 John 1:9 (NIV) says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousnesses." If we just ask we are forgiven. Now God forgets it 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NASB), "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come." If we are made new then there is no passed. How can God even remember what we have done if we don't have a past. Now that is awesome.

I would love to be more Christ like and be able to forgive and forget like God can. That would be amazing. However I am human and it is hard but I do have a perfect example. If we look to God and his perfect example of forgiving and forgetting then maybe we might have a chance of reflecting that in our own lifestyles because we aren't perfect and we have hurt others too. We are all guilty but someone chose to forgive us and forget what we have done. Thank you Jesus.

:-)

It's been almost a year since I've last posted. There really isn't much to report noting to interesting or profound has happened. I know it seems strange that almost a year goes by and it seems that I am in the same spot that I was in a year ago. I am different or changed from then, there was a growing point for me and tons of learning. However I'm still in that same annoying spot. So there you go an update that means nothing. :)