Signposts On The Way

If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive you your transgressions.  

                                                                                       -Mt. 6:14-15

 

 The above passage appears in the Gospel of Matthew immediately after Jesus has shared the Lord’s Prayer.   All we must do to receive God’s forgiveness is to forgive those who have offended us.  Likewise, if we do not forgive other, it prevents God from being able to forgive us.

Are there people you have not forgiven?  Why have you made this choice?  Remember that forgiveness is a gift to yourself.  Holding on to anger destroys you spiritually, emotionally and physically.   Forgiveness restores you to the fullness of life in Christ.