A happy life is living in peace without a feeling of anger, hatred, vengeance, and resentment. It is a process of letting go of bad feelings inside your heart that can give you a beautiful life.
Once in my life, I was unforgiving, with the person who commits a mistake and caused me pain physically, emotionally, and it takes so long for me to release forgiveness with that person. But honestly, it was the time of my life that I was feeling so heavy inside me. Most of the time my mind was filled with negativity and thinking of something bad.
I became a weird at that time, that I used to be aloof from other people.And I wear something unusual like hat loose shirt so that no one can recognize ne.When I walk,I always look behind my back to see if someones following me. It creates anxiety and nervousness each day.
Unforgiving affects my well-being every day, I was not happy the whole time if I remember the face of that person. Time passes by, God has made me open my eyes, and His word blessed me with forgiveness. I ask myself who am I to not forgive other people when God forgives me for all of my sins. I have been forgiven that's why I need to forgive him.
Finally, I gave my forgiveness after 2 years of living with hate. And you know what, it gives me so much joy and peace in my heart. I set myself free from holding on to my greatest baggage.
Who deserves forgiveness?
All of us don't deserve it, but because of God's amazing grace, he has given us a chance to be forgiven.
Unforgiving spirit effect can cause physical illness, one of these is hypertension, anxiety, nervousness, and feeling weak. And most of the time,a person who has hatred oftentimes unhappy and keeps on frowning. It can also cause a gap in a relationship with other people that became cold with love.
Forgiveness is the best cure of all my guilt. It helps me to gain back my happiness and the people around me become joyful.
Forgiveness cannot be done in a single day, it takes a long process in my case. And there is a saying, "Forgive but not forget."To be honest, I didn't forget what he did to me, I will always remember that in my mind. But I've come to the point that God has opened my eyes, if it is not because of God I was unable to forgive!
One of the best things about my journey to forgiveness is the support system from my family and my Christian friends who never judge me for weakness but they encourage me and help me to grow in my relationship with God.
There's no best formula to forgiveness, nor any steps that enables me.One of my biggest supporter is my mother , she is the one who knows me better, my pain, my struggles, and daily fight inside me.She always been there to help me.
But most of all, God teaches me to forgive, according to the scripture we will not forgive just once but seventy seven times.It means as always we need to forgive.For our enemy is not with flesh and blood but in spirit who persuaded humanity to commit sin.And if we will not forgive, it signifies that we didn't love him, because of living in hatred.In Galatians 5:22,the fruit of the Spirit is love, peace, joy,patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control against such there is no law.
Forgiveness (By Mathew West)
It's the hardest thing to give away
And the last thing in your mind today
It always goes to those who don't deserve It's the opposite of how you feel
When the pain they caused is just so real
It takes everything you have to say the word
Forgiveness
Forgiveness
Forgiving is moving away our pride
And takes away the enemy inside us , anger
What a victory it is of being free
Set yourself free from imprisonment and the bondage of sin
Live free, set yourself free.
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God bless you all.💚💚💚
To actually live a happy life, forgiveness has to be a major habbit, one could hurt you in deep ways that might be hard to forget. But if we are able to forgive, it also heals our soul