What's more important? Why waste time?

We all have a lot in common, and it makes no difference where we are in our spiritual walk:

• we have all experienced wrongs at the hands of others...sometimes some pretty deep wounds resulted
• we have all done things of which we are not proud
• we all carry skeletons of some sort
• many times we tend to carry a "score card"

Each of the above are things that reflect something within our pasts.  And each are something that we find ourselves "massaging" from time to time.  And each, because we so often don't let it go, can drain us, or stand in the way of our emotional and spiritual well being.  Sometimes it seems just too hard to forgive....ourselves and others, doesn't it?  If we forgive some of those others we no longer have that "club" to carry in our minds.  And by not forgiving ourselves of those things in our past which helped bring about our brokenness we are denying ourselves a freedom that we need to really move on and grow as Christians.

Truthfully now, doesn't it almost seem easier at times to ask God for forgiveness than to render forgiveness ourselves...either to others or ourselves?  Why is that so?

Perhaps if we remove ourselves from the role of judge and jury, and just stick with God and the one and only source of forgiveness we might get a whole new perspective.  It would serve to remind us of this important distinction:

 

 

Oh, by the way.....the future is changed because you are then not carrying the weight of the past and you are free of that burden.  I've always heard that God has a big heart and big hands....so why not give him that past junk?  We can trust Him to know what to do with it...and it frees us up to thank Him and grow.