Matthew 18:21-35
3 Conditions Your Soul Will Find Itself In If You Do Not Forgive
1- If you do not forgive you will constantly find yourself choking the life out of others, not realizing you're losing the life of your own faith in the process. If we pursued healing with the same amount of zeal we pursued retribution we would be a much happier people. We must lay down our reasons, to pick up His reasoning. Have mercy, as He had mercy on us.
2- We have been freed from the torture and prison of our sin. Yet we place ourselves back into prison when we choose to harbor unforgiveness and bitterness. The enemy wants you stuck in the past, so you cannot go forward into your future. We must pray for the compassion of God, to release people from their wrongs, and truly walk in forgiveness. Compassion + Releasing = Forgiveness.
3- Only you know if your forgiveness is skin deep or heart deep. To forgive from the heart is a life that has lost count of the wrongs done to us, because we have such joy in the righteousness God has purchased for us. It's hard to be a carrier of the Good News when all you're focused on is bad circumstances of what you have walked through. The power of grace and a clear picture of grace comes into focus when we give grace to tohers when we have every right not to.
