Would You Want To Be Judged For Life By What Happened On Your Worst Day?

Have You Judged Someone That Way? 

Would you want to be judged for the rest of your life by a single act or cross word?

Then why do we so often cling to our grudges and unforgiveness of others?

The word forgive means, "To give up all claim to resentment or indebtedness". To give it up is to be free of it. To say "I will forgive but I will not forget it" is not to forgive. Only love can grant sincere forgiveness. That is why it is said, "To err is human, to forgive is divine".

Forgiveness Blesses The Forgiver More Than The Forgiven.

For by our forgiveness of others, which is also a blessing to ourselves, we gain forgiveness from God for our own sins, which is a  second blessing to us. So it is a blessed truth that to "give" forgiveness is more blessed than to "receive" forgiveness because it counts double to the giver and once more to the receiver.

Every promise of God has within it such compounding effects, which may only be seen after the fact of obedience to God's commands, and only then are we blessed by the promise. But, we must obey because it is right and holy and honoring to our Heavenly Father, not because we want something in return. It is a way of life, a way to live, a way to be, the essence of Christianity.

Jesus taught it as an essential fact...    

"But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." Matt.6:15.

"So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses." Matt.18:35.

And He taught us to pray for this grace...   

"Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." Matt.6:12.

Even the secular world of science recognized the superior experience of giving over receiving. RB
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Giving Makes Us Happier Than Reveiving

By Terra Marquette in Study Finds

CHICAGO — In this season of giving and getting, the findings are in. It is more blessed to give than to receive.

According to two new studies conducted by researchers with the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, giving to others rather than to ourselves makes us happier.

Have you ever noticed that your enjoyment in a repeated activity or event decreases over time no matter how wonderful it is? When this happens, you are experiencing what researchers call hedonic adaptation. The joy of having our own desires met is always fleeting. Perhaps surprisingly, however, giving to others creates a more lasting happiness.

“If you want to sustain happiness over time, past research tells us that we need to take a break from what we’re currently consuming and experience something new,” says study co-author Ed O’Brien, of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, in a release from the Association for Psychological Science. “Our research reveals that the kind of thing may matter more than assumed: Repeated giving, even in identical ways to identical others, may continue to feel relatively fresh and relatively pleasurable the more that we do it.”