Forgive and Forget

 

People say that all the time but it is so hard for us as humans to do.  How many times have we said that to people?  To someone that has hurt us over and over again but if we do forgive we don’t forget.  Why is that?  Why can’t we be like our Father and just forget?  When someone has hurt us again, we’ve given them so many chances that we just give up on them. 

Matthew 18:21-22 (NIV)

The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant

²¹ Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?”

²² Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.

Our Father is much better than that.  He not only forgives… no matter how many times we ask for it, even when it’s about the same thing, He forgives and forgets!  Never brings it up to us the next time we fail and come asking for forgiveness again. 

Hebrews 8:12 (NIV)

For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."

I pray that God will help me to be able to forgive and forget!  To really and truly forget so that I won’t have it there, keeping score for the next time.  I am so thankful that our Father does that for us!

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The God Who Sees You

 

I have been reading this wonderful book by Tammy Maltby called The God Who Sees You: Look to Him When You Feel Discouraged, Forgotten, or Invisible and I just wanted to share a little passage from it.  I think that everyone should run and get this book!  I am really loving the down time at work when I am waiting on the floor to dry or just taking a breather and sit down to see how God Sees ME! 

This is crucial to remember:  There is nothing you can do to change the way God sees you!  Nothing you can do to make Him love you any less. 
When you rebel, when you forget Him, when you get lost or fail—He doesn’t stop desiring you or delighting in you.

But that doesn’t mean the God who delights in you is blinded by love.  Because the God who sees you, the God who delights in you, also sees you just the way you are!!

How awesome is that!?!  God loves us, delights in us even when we mess up, He made us and knows who we are and sees us for who we are!  We need to stop looking to man to see us that way and to praise our Father for being like that!  I love the God who sees me!!! 

Here’s some more little snippets from this amazing book.

Gently and with grace, God is constantly in the process of positioning you where you need to be.

But you can be be confident that when God looks at you, He sees you dancing beyond your circumstances whatever they are—living the life He has already prepared for you. He will put you where you need to be… if you pay attention & obey His call.

 

If you keep your focus on God, He will put you exactly where you need to be.  But even if you lose focus, if you’re disobedient and lose your way, you can turn back to Him and still trust Him to use all your pain and mistakes to put you where you need to be. 

 

God loves you! 
God says--

Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne?  Though she may forget, I will not forget you! 

See I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.  ~Isaiah 49:15-16

 

This is a definite must read!  I was not paid to ‘promote’ this book but it has touched me so much and I am only on chapter four!!  I just wanted to share this with everyone and pray that you will understand The God Who Sees You!

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