Harvey Weinstein, Niagara Falls, and clean slates
Most people, including Christians, do not forgive each other. I have witnessed this over and over again in the past 30+ years of walking with Jesus. Ever since I came to the Lord, I naively assumed that if I wronged someone, knowingly or unknowingly, that I would be forgiven. After all, that's what the Bible tells us to do, right? So why, then, have I experienced so little of it among so-called Christians? Don't they believe the Lord's Prayer - "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us"? Maybe they don't care if they are forgiven by God. I have had to, like you, forgive many people over the years. I find that it's a choice, not a feeling. I rarely, if ever, feel like forgiving someone. But I do it in obedience to God. I do it because I want to stay right with God and I so desperately want and need His forgiveness. When I turn to Jesus for forgiveness over anything, Jesus forgives me at once. He doesn't wait to th