Number 10 on my bucket list is 'Make Amends'. I put it on there because I know how import it is to make amends with your past. It is very important to forgive. It's easy to hold on to things from the past, and at times you feel like you have a good reason for holding on to it. Maybe that person hurt you, or maybe you're holding on to bad memories.
I have always been taught that you have to forgive others and give it to God. When you forgive and let it go, you are allowing God to work in that persons life and clean them up.
So why is it so hard to forgive your self? Don't you deserve to be free of the past, the hurt, the reminders? Don't you think that you should allow God to close those doors in your life and open the doors to new possibilities, new life? The person that you should forgive the most is yourself.
So you made mistakes. But didn't you learn from them, learn what not to do the next time. God allows things to happen in our life. He gave us all free will. When we make mistakes, God is right there to help pick us back up again. But all too often, we miss the lesson and we end up making the same mistakes again.
I have started looking back at things in my past and my life and asking "Now God, what were you trying to show me? What was I supposed to be learning?".
God can use our mistakes to teach us lessons. It may hurt looking back. And it may break us down. But God will use those mistake and lessons and build you up into the person you were meant to be. God can use those mistakes you made and your past to help others. It is your testimony. Own it!
The person most people forget to forgive is their self. Forgive yourself for the things you did and the past you can't change. Be free.
You deserve Forgiveness.
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