Have you ever been hurt by a friend or loved one? Maybe they hurt your feelings by what they said to you or didn’t come to an event that you asked them to cone to. How did that make you feel?

Now, let’s think about it from another way. Have you ever hurt someone’s feelings? And neglect to ask them for forgiveness because you were mad? If we were to be honest we have done this at least once. Even if the person we hurt did not tell us personally.

Asking for forgiveness is an important thing to God. It is so important to God that he says if we repent for our sins he will forgive us. Now if God can forgive us and he is perfect. How come we cannot forgive those that hurt us. Let us remember that forgiveness is not for the other person, but for us ourselves.

When we repent for our sins, God forgives us which grants us access to heaven. Repenting for our sins washes away our sins, and God forgets about them. The word of God says that God throws them into the sea of forgetfulness. Meaning that once God forgives us he does not bring up to us again.