A Forgiving God

"Have mercy on me, O God,according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
Wash away all of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. Psalm 51:1-2

Isn't is great to know that God is a God of forgiveness? No matter what we have done or not done, He is such a forgiving and gracious God. Thank you, Lord.

In the above scripture, David is pleading with God to forgive him after he committed adultery with Bathsheba and plotted to have her husband killed. Wow, King David, the person that God himself coins "a man after God's own heart", committed adultery and had someone killed and in the end, God forgave him? Yes. God did. And He will do the same for you and I.

The problem that we have around forgiveness, is that the fact that PEOPLE do not always forgive us like God forgives us. There are some people that will hold our sins over our head forever. This is not what God calls us to do as fellow Christians, but in reality it happens. As hard as it is sometimes, always remember that you CANNOT change the way people feel about you or their opinion of you. God can, but you can't. The person that you need to be worried about is if God forgives you, and if He forgives you, than that is all that matters. Not to say that there are not consequences associated with our sin, but if we ask, God forgives. We no longer have to stand in bondage of our sin.

God is a merciful God. He is a God of compassion and unfailing love. Most of all, He is a forgiving God. He will forgive us. Actually, He already has.

Forgiven Me by Mary Mary