Mark 11:25-26

When I have been forgiven so much how can I withhold that same forgiveness from others?

Only in Christ are we able to forgive. We love because He first loved us. We live because He stood in our place, in our sins, and died for us.

Holy Spirit  help me to extend that same agape love of the  Father  to others. 

Do what only You can do. 

So, I love Robert Fulghum’s observation, “Live a balanced life—learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.”

I will (try to) give up my need to know exactly where I am going. Why not let the road of this coming year unfold in wonderful, challenging, and unexpected ways? Is control really that important? Sabbath Moments

Mark 11:25-26

25 “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. 26 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.” The New King James Version

It is doubtful that a person who cannot forgive another has ever experienced the forgiveness of his own sins by God. The NKJV Study Bible

Psalm 25:11 For Your name’s sake, O LORD,Pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

Matthew 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

Matthew 9:2 Then behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.”

Matthew 18:35 “So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.”

Luke 18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.