What is Bitterness? What is Unforgiveness? What if I Don't Forgive Someone?

Check this out...........Bitterness and Unforgiveness toward someone is like this to you:  It's like you drinking poison and expecting it to hurt someone else!  Think about that!

It's holding another person to a debt that they will never ever be able to pay.  

And it's serious in God's eyes.  Mat 6:14-15    For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.  But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.  That's serious to me!

Sometimes we forgive BIG sins but we hold small grudges, small debts against people, on the road when someone pulls out in front of us, we over hear someone make a comment about us, the worker gives us a parking ticket.  No I want you to be free!  That’s what I want and you can’t be free if you keep that grudge..................

Those small things is what matters to God just as much as much as the big things.  Forgive and forget.  I saw a saying someplace that went something like this:

The first person to say I'm sorry is the bravest and the first person to forgive is the strongest, yet the first person to forget is the happiest........

That's what God did for us.  Psalm 103:12 as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

And again:  Isaiah 43:25  "I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.

Be blessed!  Be Free!

Billy