Focus: FORGIVENESS

The Weekly One Word is:
FORGIVENESS

I love this book with just One Word a Week
and Bible Hub, which is where the link goes above 
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The book's chosen verse for "FORGIVENESS" is: 

Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense. Proverbs 19:11 ESV

By now, you must be familiar with the repeated fact that the author of FOCUS does not use verses that contain the FOCUS One Word that I am accustomed to for One Words, but her verses always go with the content of her devotional message. This is why I choose to search the One Word at Bible Hub or online or Bible Gateway or at You Version. Yet I am very thankful for the beautifully written devotionals - this time focusing on "offense" with FORGIVENESS (and that One Word of "Offense" is in the Bible verse) - 4 wonderful paragraphs that end with her FOCUS TIP (that she has each week). Her conclusion for this week stands out to me:

" This week, let's look for opportunities to forgive rather than opportunities to be offended. What a games changer that will be!"

I couldn't agree more!
The problem for me is that part on the other person,
who always believes that they are in the right.
I try to move past it, go around it, overlook it.
Even forgive it so I can go on.
Yet I'm consistently
reminded
by
that other person
of the past and offenses in the past
that I want to be done with and move on from
which is why I am so grateful that
I AM FORGIVEN
by
Jesus Christ
once I confess my sin, He is faithful & just
to forgive me from my sin & cleanse me from  all unrighteousness
(1 John 1:9)
Now that's
FORGIVENESS
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If you get a chance, follow that link to the Bible Hub and look at the definitions from Easton's Bible Dictionary and Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, or wherever you have Bible tools to look at the One Word: FORGIVENESS. 

"Jesus Christ taught that FORGIVENESS is a duty."

[further down on that page #3 from the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]

under the "Teaching of Christ" & read on in the "Conditions of Forgiveness"

{I actually find all 12 parts to be a week & more worth of study & reading but worth it}

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Oh and before I leave this portion,

I'd like to add my most valuable lesson on

FORGIVENESS

"Forgiving does not mean Forgetting"

but it does mean

"letting go of the offense"

not repeatedly reminding the offender or the forgiven

and that 

"we must forgive in order to be forgiven"

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Verses given by the author, Cleere Cherry Reaves in 

FOCUS ... for the One Word FORGIVENESS

Proverbs 19:11 ESV; Matthew 18:21-22 NLT; Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV;  1 Peter 2:23 ESV; Galatians 6:1-3 ESV

I look at One Scripture from these each week day and sometimes compare in other versions.
At times, I select a few of the other verses that have the One Word
FORGIVENESS
in the verse
such as
Matthew 6:14
(but I noticed that when I looked through the verses, it most often just had FORGIVE)
So I imagine many of the verses just have some form of the One Word like FORGIVE.
{which makes my choice not a good example}

"Jesus, I let go of all my offenses & pick up Your grace instead,"
After all - it's
aMazing Grace
and
Your FORGIVENESS is just as
aMazing!!!
because
YOU ARE AMAZING!