An Overlooked Forgiveness

For my fellow Christians. I want to bring our focus inward, and see something that is so easily overlooked. We are told by God to look forward to eternal life with him, a new heaven and new earth, to focus on things eternal. What I think we do wrong, is to overlook our present. Just like in drivers training, we are told to see "the big picture", but we must also see our immediate surroundings in order to avoid an accident. Yes, we must see "the big picture" of our standing with God, but we must also see our immediate standing in order to make proper adjustments. As this qoute to the right states, to GET WELL and MOVE ON. Un-forgiveness towards ourselves and the mistakes we've made is crippling. We don't want to make those mistakes again so we shut down completely, not doing wrong but not doing right. If a Christian was suppose to never make any mistakes in order to be called a Christian, well then the world would have NO Christians in it. I think this excerpt helps clarify this point:

Exerpt by: Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore

"Christians overlook self-forgiveness because we also tend to reject self-love and foster ridiculous standards of perfection. It has taken psychologists, like Heinz Kohut, to demonstrate that people have healthy narcissistic needs for self-love that do not preclude or exclude love of others. Self-love and love of others are interdependent, something that the commandment to "love others as one loves oneself" actually implies. Given human limitation, failure is inevitable, and holding up absurd standards of perfection is neurotically unhealthy."

Don't cripple yourself by un-forgiveness towards yourself. God has called you for a purpose, make the proper adjustments in your life when needed in order to fulfill it. We all need a little bit of this: