Forgiveness

Have you ever wondered why it's so hard to forgive people? Forgiveness seems like a simple thing--and it is--but simple and easy are not the same! There's really one thing that stands in the way of forgiving others: pride. That's trait the first of the sin nature! It was Lucifer's first sin, and if you think about it, it was Eve's first sin--the reason she disobeyed! We struggle to forgive because we fail to die to self. An old preacher once said, "If you hurt me, it's my fault--I'm not dead. You can't hurt a dead man." How true! If we can just learn to set aside our pride, to die to self, we could forgive.
But here's the catch: you have to do it every day! We want to say, "I forgive you," and it's all over. If we could really forgive and forget, like God, we could pull that off. We're not God, and we don't forget. Every day we have to decide for that day to die to self, to set aside our pride, and forgive. The next day...well...you'll have to worry about that then!