Forgive: a Core Value

I know that I have written about this several times. Forgive. A core value of a Christian. I am a person with a lot of stories. I felt convicted of some of my stories sometime back especially dealing with exes and the reason is "everybody is somebody God loves". (Andy Stanley).  I have been divorced 4 times, I carried baggage forward.  If you have ever been hurt you probably do also. I heard about a statement made by Tim Ferris: If you don't deal with your demons,  they go into the cellar of your soul and lift weights. I like to refer to scripture so here I go: And don't sin by letting anger control you. Don't let the sun go down while you are still angry, for anger gives a foothold to the devil. Ephesians 4:26,27.  Don't let demons live in the cellar of your soul and lift weights.  We have all been hurt. Somebody did us wrong.  And if it is way back in the past in a previous relationship, for example, they can't fix it. It is over, there is no time machine to travel back in time and undo the hurt. But no matter how bad it hurts, they can't fix it.  For me or you to get better requires us to forgive. Cancel the debt. Write the debt down, what they owe you, what they took from you, and write cancel on it. If you are still holding on to a debt, you have demons in the cellar of your soul lifting weights.  Andy Stanley says do not let the sun go down while you are still angry does not necessarily mean 24 hours. Perhaps for you, it means before the sun goes down in your life.  These are my words.  Andy gave these three points. 1. Identify who. 2. What was taken. 3. Declare it canceled.  I know people that carried a hurt for their whole life and it destroyed their lives and their relationships because they have demons in the cellar of their soul,  lifting weights.  I want to review my olds posts and perhaps delete some old stories, It will take time. I want to review those things and make sure I wrote cancel those old debts. I don't want demons dwelling in the cellar of my soul lifting weights. God bless, LVZ.