Sleepless Nights

I try my best to give people chances to do the right thing, and no matter what has been said or done to me. I don't want bitterness and continuous anger to fall deep within my heart. I know what that looks like, what it sounds like, and bitterness is never a favorable taste on the tongue. So, I live with forgiveness in my spirit knowing one day I too will be judged. The highest judge of them all said in order for us to be forgiven we have to forgive others. Not sure about you, but I want to be forgiven. I will not say that I don't have a tough time forgiving people who have taken my kindness for weakness, but I ask God to have mercy on them because they do not know what they do and they don't understand what it means to be a child of God.. in a biblical sense they do not know. For if they did they would be willingly setting themselves up for failure, and who walks around saying when I grow up I want to be a failure, absolutely no one. I help people with their prayer lives daily, whatever they need to go to God on I come in prayer to agree with them. I've heard many request some on forgiveness of others, or receiving God's forgiveness for the things they have done that have caused them shame, pain, and guilt. That's what is so comforting to me about God that He will give you chance after chance if you come with a heart of repentance He'll give you forgiveness freely without hesitation. For normal human beings, it might take awhile to even consider being in your presence let alone forgive you especially if you did the wrongful act against them. Forgiveness just may be the last thing on their minds. Thank you Lord that isn't how you operate! You never leave us no matter how many times we turn our backs on you. We ignore your will and follow our own and once we fall on our faces, and get burned time after time. You lift us back up like the loving Father you are and dust us off to let us try again until we get it right.