With My Whole Heart 4
God promises to forgive all our sins but in order to receive His promised mercy, we have to come to Him with our whole heart.
I entreated Your favor with my whole heart; be merciful and gracious to me according to Your promise.
Psalm 119:58 Amplified
Genuine repentance begins in our heart and is reflected in our actions. The moment we recognize our wrong is the time to turn back to God with an apology to Him and to the one we have hurt. That is what the word 'repent' means: to turn back, to turn around, to regret what you have done to the point that you change the direction you were moving in.
We are reminded in the book of Psalms that the one we hurt the most when we sin is God. Our sin is actually offensive to Him. It is only because of the shed blood of Jesus Christ that we can receive complete and total forgiveness. Jesus was beaten and murdered so that we could have our debt to sin paid in full. For this reason, we do our best to do the right thing in every situation and when we are wrong, promptly admit it.
Forgiveness is guaranteed but I warn you now, it is a two way street that we must travel in both directions. The Bible tells us that we are forgiven by God every time but if we refuse to forgive another then we cannot be forgiven either. It is this part of the growing process that many people stumble. We mistakenly think that when we forgive someone for doing us wrong that we are removing the consequences of their choices. We are not.
Every action we take has either (or both) a good and a bad consequence. God does not remove the results of our actions only the debt of guilt. Therefore, when we choose to forgive someone for hurting us, we are allowing God to take care of them while we continue to experience His mercy in our own lives. It is none of our business how God deals with another over their wrong doings. We are only responsible for the choices we make in our own lives.
In the same way we have been forgiven, we should forgive others.
God has promised us complete forgiveness when we turn back to Him with an "I'm sorry."
Heidirn
I entreated Your favor with my whole heart; be merciful and gracious to me according to Your promise.
Psalm 119:58 Amplified
Genuine repentance begins in our heart and is reflected in our actions. The moment we recognize our wrong is the time to turn back to God with an apology to Him and to the one we have hurt. That is what the word 'repent' means: to turn back, to turn around, to regret what you have done to the point that you change the direction you were moving in.
We are reminded in the book of Psalms that the one we hurt the most when we sin is God. Our sin is actually offensive to Him. It is only because of the shed blood of Jesus Christ that we can receive complete and total forgiveness. Jesus was beaten and murdered so that we could have our debt to sin paid in full. For this reason, we do our best to do the right thing in every situation and when we are wrong, promptly admit it.
Forgiveness is guaranteed but I warn you now, it is a two way street that we must travel in both directions. The Bible tells us that we are forgiven by God every time but if we refuse to forgive another then we cannot be forgiven either. It is this part of the growing process that many people stumble. We mistakenly think that when we forgive someone for doing us wrong that we are removing the consequences of their choices. We are not.
Every action we take has either (or both) a good and a bad consequence. God does not remove the results of our actions only the debt of guilt. Therefore, when we choose to forgive someone for hurting us, we are allowing God to take care of them while we continue to experience His mercy in our own lives. It is none of our business how God deals with another over their wrong doings. We are only responsible for the choices we make in our own lives.
In the same way we have been forgiven, we should forgive others.
God has promised us complete forgiveness when we turn back to Him with an "I'm sorry."
Heidirn
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