Helen, surely, these are wonderful verses.  People don't realize that God
has forgiven them for all sins, past, present and future.  And, people
don't forgive themselves.  Aren't you glad he said, the East is from the
west, and not the North is from the South?  The Lord said, in Jeremiah 31:3:

Jer 31:3  The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, [saying], Yea, I have
loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I
drawn thee.

God can't love us any more than he already does, today.  And there is
nothing that we can do to make Him stop loving us.  As the verse said, an
everlasting love.  And, if that isn't enough, read ?Romans Chapter
8:35-39.  If you will allow these truths into your life, I promise you,
they will affect your life.  You will grow in your Christian life move
forward with confidence and without fear and start loving people
unconditionally, as God loves us, no matter how they treat you.  That
reminds me of another verse:

Eph 4:32  And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one
another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Here is another that came up in my search for the other.

Col 3:13  Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man
have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.

Start to realize just how much, God has forgiven you, and you will be able
to start forgiving people for what they have done to you.

earlier, Helen, wrote:
>Failure and Success: Paralysis From Past Mistakes
>
>For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward
>those who fear Him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has He
>removed our transgressions from us. --Psalm 103:11-12
>
>Do not let any of the things of the world or past mistakes paralyze your
>hearts. I believe there are Christians who have allowed some of their past
>mistakes to paralyze them. You were so bright and cheerful in your
>spiritual life once, and then you made some tragic mistake or had something
>happen to you. You got out of it somehow, and prayed and wept your way out
>of it. But it did something to you, and now you cannot lick it. Past wrongs
>that have been done to you, past failures, times you thought you were going
>to win and did not, or present sins or discouragement-these things are not
>mental at all. They are deeper than that; they are subconscious, and they
>prevent us from believing.
>
>I most urgently exhort you, and I trust God Almighty to deliver you; to
>sponge that out of your spirit; to sponge that out of your heart so you are
>not hindered by unbelief. Rut, Rot or Revival: The Condition of the Church,
>pp. 162-163
>
>"Lord, I'm surely not the only one who desperately needs this reminder this
>morning. So many of us struggle with past sins, failures, or hurts. I pray
>for all of my fellow-servants who need deliverance, who need to have the
>past sponged out of their spirits and hearts. Amen."

John

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