How To Be Forgiving?

Uchtdorf

It seems to be very difficult for us to be forgiving, especially when we're angry, when we're hurt and embarrassed. Isn't it?

I found the solution to this and was spiritually clarified on the immediacy and the extent of forgiving from the message, "The Merciful Obtain Mercy" shared by Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the First Presidency in the last day of the delayed broadcast of the 182nd General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for this month of April 2012.

"When it comes to our own prejudices and grievances, we too often justify our anger as righteous and our judgment as reliable and only appropriate. Though we cannot look into another’s heart, we assume that we know a bad motive or even a bad person when we see one. We make exceptions when it comes to our own bitterness because we feel that, in our case, we have all the information we need to hold someone else in contempt," Uchtdorf said.

Don't Forget You're Invited To Come Unto Christ

Image, courtesy of Mel Avila Alarilla

Every lenten season Christ is always the center of everyone's worship. It takes them a week to revere Him, to recollect His sacrifices from womb to tomb. We should understand not only spiritually but practically to take Christ upon ourselves for it's a life-and-afterlife duty and responsibility not only for a moment, for an hour, for a day, for a year but for time and eternity.

Therefore, let's heed His invitation to come unto Him. Let's repent and be baptized for His name's sake. Let's examine ourselves. And do the following plain and simple work: