The greater the offence, the harder it is to forgive\u2014but you must. Because whatever you refuse to forgive and let go of, you carry with you. And it will be like a concrete block strapped around your neck. <\/p>\n
Has someone mistreated you, cheated you, lied about you or fired you? Have you failed yourself? Are you asking, \u2018How can I get beyond my past mistakes and become successful again?\u2019 Whatever your particular hurt, the solution isn\u2019t feeding it or denying it. You have to forgive and let it go, or you will continue to hurt yourself. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s often said that choosing not to forgive somebody is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. In order to move forward, you have to \u2018let go\u2019 and be at peace with the past. Paul could easily have allowed the memory of the Christians he put to death before meeting Christ to destroy him and rob him of his destiny. But he refused to do it. <\/p>\n
Instead he wrote: \u2018Dear brothers [and sisters], I am still not all that I should be, but I am bringing all my energies to bear on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God is calling us up to Heaven because of what Christ Jesus did for us.\u2019<\/i> (Philippians 3:13\u201314 TLB) And here\u2019s one more Scripture: \u2018If you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in Heaven may forgive you your sins.\u2019<\/i> (Mark 11:25 NIV) <\/p>\n
So the word for today is\u2014\u2018Forgive and move on.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The greater the offence, the harder it is to forgive\u2014but you must. Because whatever you refuse to forgive and let go of, you carry with you. And it will be like a concrete block strapped around your neck. Has someone mistreated you, cheated you, lied about you or fired you? Have you failed yourself? Are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}