You Are the Reason

13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. Colossians 3:13 NIV

Go ahead, admit it. This is hard. Once someone has proven to be untrustworthy or has wronged you in some way, it's hard to forgive them. It's hard to not keep thinking about what they did every time they mess up again.

But even though it's hard, I like the way the last line is written...forgive as God forgave us. He gave his only son as payment for our sins. Jesus entered this world as a baby and left this world the savior. I saw a saying on a church sign that read, you are the reason for Christmas; God loves you. How true. God loves us so much that he sent Jesus to be our savior.

So as hard as it may be, we must forgive. We must move past it. Just imagine how much better this world would be if we all did this.