Forgive As You Have Been Forgiven

The question that I pose to myself this morning is this...Why is it so hard to forgive when you have been hurt? As children of the Almighty Holy Forgiving God we know that we are to “forgive as we have been forgiven”. But why is it so difficult?

Luke 7:47—But he who is forgiven little, loves little, and he said to her, ‘Your sins are forgiven.’ The woman that Jesus was speaking to was a woman of the world, having a reputation of being a sinful woman of the street. Many families could have been destroyed by this prostitute. The Only way we can forgive with that magnitude of greatness that we have been called to is to see the magnitude of forgiveness that we have received. To will ourselves to forget because that would be the right thing to do is devoid of the love that makes it praise. To forgive out of a hearts response to the forgiveness we have received from Christ is worship, it is where Christ is exalted.

Forgiveness is my visible expression to the offender that I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ because I have been forgiven far worse..offending a Holy God.