Forgiving Ourselves

A woman from the Rock Prairie Women’s retreat commented to me after our retreat, “Thank you for letting me know I need to forgive myself. I have been holding on to a lot of things for a long time.”

Many of us women are very good at holding on to our past mistakes. We repeat them over and over again in our heads. We get so angry at ourselves for something that is long gone or moments ago. No matter what the time frame, we can feel our present moment being consumed with our past. Many of us rehearse a mistake over and over again trying to replay it, as if we could do something about it! I would have or if I could have. We successfully beat ourselves up and deny ourselves self love. This makes it easy for us to self destruct.

God wants us to live in His love and be His righteousness. He sent his only begotten Son to this world to die for us so we can be free. Free to be with Him in Heaven and have eternal life. Free of the guilt and shame of our past, present and future sins here in this life!

Romans 5-:8-9 “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.”

Romans 10:9 “that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead you will be saved.”

Romans 10:11 “For the Scriptures says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”

Jesus died to forgive you, do not hold on to un-forgiveness. Be set free! A major part of loving yourself is accepting Jesus’ free gift and BE FORGIVEN! Live in His love, no matter what has gone on, is going on or will go on!

Romans 14:22a “Happy is he who does not condemn Himself”