Not only is it important to ask for forgiveness, but to forgive
Read Mark 11:25 and journal your thoughts
Sometimes this is something easier said than done isn’t it? It’s one thing to forgive someone for spilling your soda (not pop) or something smaller like that. Other times people really hurt us, sometimes the hurt goes deep. Maybe they stood us up at a time when we were scheduled to meet up, maybe they lied to us about something big? What if they’ve betrayed our trust with something that was important? Now these are the things that are harder to forgive.
But just like the moments when they forgive you are vital, so are the moments when you forgive them. Just as them forgiving you heal not just each other, but the community, so you forgiving them will heal the community. Sometimes this takes humility because it’s hard to forgive; it’s hard to get past our own hurt pride and to do what God is calling us to do.
Today take some time to mediate on some of the deepest wounds.
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