Are you allowing unforgiveness to dwell in you heart and to hinder your faith? Unforgiveness is the act of not forgiving. It's holding on to what was instead of allowing the love of God to help heal your heart.
No, it's not easy to forgive. When someone has wronged you, hurt you, and continue to hurt you, it's hard to let it all go but God is our example. Just as He forgives us for how we have wronged Him and misused the things that He has given us, including our mouths and our bodies, WE MUST FORGIVE OTHERS. We have not always shown God respect and we have not always said and made the right choices concerning this life that He has so freely given us and yet He is merciful and He forgives us.
If God was not a forgiving God, there would be no mercy for us. There would be no grace and there would be the absence of His unfailing love. Everything that God is and everything that He does is based on His love and His forgiveness and He wants us to exhibit His characteristics in the earth.
We must understand that unforgiveness hinders our prayers. Unforgiveness is based on a choice we make. We choose to stay bitter and we choose to not forgive. In some instances, unforgiveness is another form of hatred and it is the failure to have mercy on others just as God has been merciful to us.
TODAY we must choose to forgive!
SCRIPTURE MEDITATION
Matthew 18:23-35
King James Version
23 Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.
24 And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.
25 But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
26 The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
27 Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
28 But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
29 And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
30 And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.
31 So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.
32 Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:
33 Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
34 And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
35 So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
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