How to Forgive Yourself and Feel Alive

People continually think that it needs a lot of tricky work or that it is hard to forgive. Fundamentally it is way easier than you’ll think to forgive anbother person. There’s also a pleasure to forgiving that arrives once we have surrendered our life to God. The act of forgiveness releases the obligations of our heart to a larger power, freeing us to have a heart of joy and excitement. Discovering how to frogive yourself is a step toward a life of liberty.

I was told recently that God doesn’t forget our sins after we ask for forgiveness. That’s opposite to what Scripture reveals.

For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more. Hebrews 8:12

For us, there is a difference between forgiving ourselves and forgetting the incorrect we have done. God can remove your sin from His mind; we do not have the same capability. The sin we committed may linger in our minds and there could be lasting implications from our acts of disobedience. Yet God tells us we are forgiven and our sins are so far as east is from west.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:12

Does His forgiveness have anything to do with the gravity of our wrong actions? No, God doesn’t put any qualifiers like, this sin or that sin has to have something mnore because of the severity of the wrong.

Are you in a position to live the life God wishes for you if you do not forgive yourself? How often will you beat yourself up or let your heart be burdened with the sin in your life. When God’s word tells us to confess our sins it carries no qualifiers, it simply states we are forgiven and purified.

If we confess our sins, he is reliable and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9

Is forgiving ourselves quite easy? Yes, it is if you realize the costly work was borne by Jesus at the cross. It would not be correct to assert forgiveness came at a small price. I'm able to forgive, myself and others and forgive readily, because Jesus horrible death on the cross. He suffered a horrible death and for 6 hours He was completely separated from His Father so I could have forgiveness of my sins. What would that say about the price of His sacrifice if I declined to forgive myself? A wonderful post on forgivng.

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