But God

 

  I want you to think of your worst day. The worst event you can think of. Not an event that happened to you.. but an event in your immaturity, your selfish nature, your desperate ego .. that event. The one you would like to go back and redo, undo. The one that holds you in shackles. The one you’ve tried so hard to put behind you. But man, he won’t let you forget, won’t let you grow, won’t let you make amends from a forgiving, truly repentant place within the depths of your heart. That’s man.

    Think of this event again. Your repentance, your growth, the new person formed by this heartbreak. But God, he forgives, he delights in your wisdom and growth. He removes the guilt and shame and encourages you to walk in faith, hope and love. That’s God.

    
    Perhaps we cannot imagine forgiving others because we have not been shown the mercy of God. We cannot imagine a love so deep, a God that so loved us, so loved the world he gave up his only Son so that we might have life and have it abundantly. In our human constraints we struggle with the magnanimity of such a God. He is that forgiveness we seek, and it is worth the struggle, worth a lifetime of study to attain even a portion of this wisdom. In this wisdom man can become more like God, created in his image, and that forgiveness can be here and now “on earth as it is in heaven.”

“Man makes note of every discrepancy, God doesn’t even write them down.” Unknown