IT'S NOTHING, JUST LIVE IT TO GOD.

 *And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors.* Matthew 6:12

We hear of feuds among Christian families that are never resolved simply because the parties involved are unwilling to forgive each other. Growing up, my mother taught me forgiveness with just one sentence *"it's nothing, just live it to God"*  It is doesn't matter how angry you are because somebody wronged or hurt you, she will tell you *"if you say you are a true Christian, then live it to your God"*

This really helped me to maintain relationship with people who became of good help to me in the future.

The unfortunate issue is that our society today doesn’t value forgiveness. In fact, forgiveness is often seen as a sign of weakness, not strength. Our culture esteems vengeance and payback. We believe in the old adage *“Don’t get mad, get even.”* but i ask myself, what if God decides to get even with us the moment we hurt him.

But in what we know as The Lord’s Prayer, Jesus taught us to pray, “And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors” (Matthew 6:12).

The word debt in this verse could be better translated “sins.” In other words, forgive us our sins or our trespasses or our shortcomings or our resentments or the wrong we have done or what we owe to Him.

Contrary to what we may think, we don’t go through a day without sinning. Even if we might not break a commandment of God, we certainly fall short of a standard of God. We have sinful thoughts and attitudes. We commit sins of omission, failing to do good when we could have done it. The Bible says, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us” (1 John 1:8).

We need to ask God every day to forgive us for our sins. And as we receive that forgiveness, we should also extend it to others. *According to Jesus, our generous and constant forgiveness of others should be the natural result of our understanding of the forgiveness God has extended to us.*

Simply put, forgiven people ought to be forgiving people. If we have been forgiven, then we must forgive others(Fathers, Mothers, sons, daughters, families, friends, colleagues etc)

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, please forgive me of all my sins even as i forgive all those who have sin against me in one way or the other. In Jesus might name i have prayed....Amen🙏🏼

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JESUS HAS FORGIVEN YOU OF ALL YOUR SINS.