GOD IS A FORGIVING GOD If we really want to love, WE MUST LEARN HOW TO FORGIVE ~ Mother Theresa All of us are so imperfect and for us to always maintain contact and for our love to grow in the family or at work, we must endlessly forgive. We need to forgive and to be forgiven every day. Yet why don’t we forgive readily? Because before we forgive we want to hear from the other person that we were right after all. Then we want to hear apology after apology. We also want to hear excuses as to why he has said or done such a thing to us. Finally, we want to be praised for being a forgiving person. For these very reasons we are reluctant to ask for forgiveness from others for fear that such demands will be asked from us. But there is no such demand from God. All God asks of us is that we rise up and return to Him and He forgives us as shown in the parable of the Prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32). God’s forgiveness is unconditional. It is this divine forgiveness that we are asked to practice in our daily life. It challenges us to step over our hurt and resentment and to forgive “seventy times seven” times. When we are able to forgive we will no longer be under the clutches of our demons of anger, pride and resentment. The more we feel the forgiving love of God, the more likely we will be able to forgive. We must really know that we are forgiven, for it is more likely that a forgiven person forgives. Unless we fully believe that we are forgiven by God and we have forgiven ourselves, it would be extremely difficult for us to forgive others. Mother Teresa advises us how to go about asking for forgiveness from God: “If we have sinned or made a mistake, let us go to Him and say, ‘I’m sorry! I repent.’ God is a forgiving Father. His mercy is greater than our sins. He will forgive us. This is humility: to have the courage to accept such humiliation and receive God’s forgiveness.”
Posted on: Thu, 08 May 2014 10:57:15 +0000
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