The bible tells us to forgive those around us as much as we want to be forgiven (matt 6:12, 14, 15).

And we often think of the well known phrase…Forgive and forget!

But so many times we forgive and we forget – but we forget the wrong way.  It’s easy to get caught up in the hurt from another person.  You feel like someone has destroyed your world.  Its easy to say with our mouths, “I forgive them”, but when it comes to forgetting what they did, we only forget what the word of God tells us to do.

James 1:22 says:

                Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.  Do what it says.  Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

See when it comes forgiving those who hurt us, God says “don’t forget what I taught you!”

So the next time you need to forgive and forget….forgive but remember to do what the Word says.

P.D.