If You Forgive

Forgiveness. One of the most difficult thing to do but the most crucial.

Hopefully the words written below will be of encouragement for you.

God Bless.

"For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you."(Matthew 6:14)

Devotional 

A portion of the Lord's Prayer that Jesus gave to us. Forgiveness is the action or process of forgiving or being forgiven, releasing negative thoughts such as resentment and bitterness and the desire for revenge. Similar words are: pardon, absolution, exoneration, mercy, pit and leniency. Forgiveness is liberating act. It is comes highly commanded by God, who says, "If you forgive others then I will also forgive you". It's not worth it to abhor un-forgiveness you are the only being hurt and stifled by that action. Regardless of the offence committed against you, give up the desire to execute judgment because forgiveness of others equals forgiveness from God.

-Author Unknown 

Goodness Is About Character

Some food for thought.

God Bless. 

Today's Quotation:

Goodness is about character--integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

Dennis Prager

Today's Meditation:

What would life be like if we all were creatures with goodness of character? If we were only kind, honest, generous, selfless, men of integrity and moral courage, and so forth, then there really would be little need for other virtues such as patience, forbearance, or forgiveness. Imagine all the negative things we would never have to deal with in life and all the time we would have now have available to enjoy life to the fullest instead of putting out the fires of negativity.

As Dennis mentions, the most important virtue of goodness is "how we treat other people." If we show pure goodness to others, we add goodness to this world--goodness that will be passed on to others and multiply exponentially. Through every simple act of goodness that we extend towards others, that much more of the world's wickedness--pain and misery, discontent and unhappiness, hatred and anger, insecurity and manipulation--is crushed.

So what am I waiting for? I can act in a way that promotes goodness in life. I can forgive others their inconsistencies and inconsiderateness. And I can practice being a man of character today.

Today's Challenge: Treat others with goodness, kindness, generosity, honesty, and so forth as you go about your day.

Questions to consider:

In what ways do you practice integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, and moral courage?

What would life be like if everyone treated others with pure goodness?

Why is the world not that way? Do most people who act without kindness and integrity really want to do so?

For further thought:

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, and kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

Moliere

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God's Faithful Love

Truth bomb! 

Amen!

God Bless.

God's faithful love is unconditional and never ending. 

#JoyceQuote

Quote Of The Day - The Only Ones

Leaving it right here.

God Bless.

Quote of the Day -Joyce Meyer

“We are the only ones who can make decisions for ourselves about how we will handle the situations that arise in our lives. Life is not likely to get any easier, but our approach to life can change and that will make it easier.” 

-Joyce Meyer, Overload: How to Unplug, Unwind, and Unleash Yourself from the Pressure of Stress

Quote Of The Day - Cannot Believe God

Love This.

Believe this.

Dealing with this.

God Bless. 

Charles Spurgeon Quote of the Day

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

~Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892),

Quote Of The Day - Begin My Prayer In Silence

A new perspective?

Definitely some food for thought. 

God Bless. 

Quote of the Day – Mother Teresa

I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it’s not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters.

– Mother Teresa

The Time Will Pass Away

Something to think on.

God Bless. 

Today's Quotation:

The time will pass anyway... you can either spend it creating the life you want or spend it living the life you don't want. The choice is yours.

Unknown

Today's Meditation:

It is easy to get so caught up in the flow of everyday things, or busy chasing errands and tasks, that we forget that we are in control of our life. That is a fact. Yet in spite of this, the truth remains that we have the ability to make the choices that determine how we experience life every day of our lives.

Perhaps we limit our choices to avoid conflict, or due to perceived issues. Or maybe we are afraid of the potential outcome, or wish to not become an inconvenience. But how often does any of this come to pass? Is it truly worth our time and energy, or does it merely add needless stress and worry to our lives and distract us from what we really want?

Life tends to get away from us. Yet in spite of this, we choose how we spend the moments of our life--"creating the life we want or merely living the life we do not want." In the end, it really comes down to what are we going to allow to consume the precious hours of the life we have left?

Today's Challenge: Spend your day creating something you find worthwhile living over again.

Questions to consider:

Why do we use the word "spend" when speaking of time?

What are some things that affect how you decide to spend your time?

How do you define "the life you want?"

For further thought:

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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