Forgiveness is God Command.

>Forgiveness can be difficult. In our day-to-day people will do or say things that offend us, rather than hold a grudge – the Bible teaches us to forgive them. Having an unforgiving heart leads to bitterness, and a heart that is bitter can not love as it ought to love.

This is something I’m putting into practice myself. I often demanded an apology in order to forgive someone. But when it’s done this way we – more often than not, are reacting based on the desires of our flesh. We feel an apology is owed to us.

In scripture we can find encouraging, and inspiring verses that encourage us to be forgiving.

These are some of the verses I like to turn to for encouragement when I’m struggling with the difficulty of forgiveness.

Ephesians 4: 32  Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Matthew 18: 21-22  Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.

2 Corinthians 2:5-8 Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you. For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough, so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.”

Colossians 3:13   bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

1 Corinthians 13: 4-6  Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

Luke 6:37  Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;

FORGIVENESS IS ABOUT GOD FORGIVE US,  BUT ALSO ABOUT HOW WE FORGIVE EACH OTHERS. FORGIVING CAN BE HARD…

    Matthew 5;43-44  “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ ^44 [a]But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you

>ABOVE ALL,LOVE EACH OTHER DEEPLY, BECAUSE LOVE COVERS A MULTITUDE OF SIN.(1PETER 4;8)  GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!