The forgiven forgive

Matthew 5:7

New King James Version

Blessed are the merciful,
For they shall obtain mercy.

Mercy is not giving people what they deserve. 

We've become great judges of other people's sins, but great lawyers of our own. 

We must remind ourselves about how merciful God is to us. 

If we think that we can earn God's forgiveness.  Then, we'll expect others to earn our forgiveness. 

The forgiven forgive. 

Let us remember that we will all face God some day.  Let's stand before God having loved too much rather than judged too much. 

God has reconciled our sins if we will only let Him.  Reconciled means to bring it to zero. 

Don't count people's sins against them either.  Being a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable.  We are called to show mercy.  Mercy triumphs over judgement. 

Jesus connected before He corrected.  We disappoint our own selves.  Disappointment is the gap between expectation and reality.   We are to show mercy to ourselves by forgiving ourselves.