DAILY HOPE WITH RICK WARREN 15TH APRIL 2024.
Daily Hope Devotional by Pastor Rick Warren for today is here to give you the encouragement to live the life God has called you to. Please read, pray and share this devotional with someone today.
The topic of Daily Hope by Rick Warren 15th April 2024 ”Why You Should Always Choose Forgiveness”
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE: Matthew 6:15 (GNT)
“If you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive the wrongs you have done.”
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RICK WARREN DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY 15TH APRIL 2024
If you are unwilling to forgive someone and you don’t want God to forgive them either, that reveals bitterness and resentment in your life.
If you want someone else to be punished but you expect forgiveness for the bad things you’ve done, you’ll just make yourself miserable. You’re not hurting them; you’re only hurting yourself.
Jesus said, “If you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive the wrongs you have done” (Matthew 6:15 GNT).
Forgiveness involves your past, present, and future:
God has forgiven you multiple times in the past.
Lack of forgiveness will make you miserable today.
You will need God’s forgiveness in the future.
Consider Jonah. After he warned the people of Nineveh about God’s judgment, they repented, so God forgave them and didn’t punish them. This disappointed Jonah and made him bitter.
But remember how Jonah originally turned away from God? He wanted God’s forgiveness for his own sin of disobeying. Yet he didn’t want God to forgive the Ninevites.
So Jonah prayed, “I knew that you are a loving and merciful God, always patient, always kind, and always ready to change your mind and not punish. Now then, LORD, let me die. I am better off dead than alive” (Jonah 4:2-3 GNT).
Jonah’s resentment was only hurting himself. The Ninevites were enjoying the grace of God while Jonah was wallowing in self-pity.
It’s critical that you forgive anyone from your past who has hurt you—and that you forgive anyone who wrongs you today. Why? Because God has forgiven you for your past sins, and he has promised to forgive you in the future.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9 NIV).
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