WILLING TO FORGIVE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 20, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 42.

“WILLING TO FORGIVE.”

WHEN we have detected ourselves in wrongdoing, especially if the sin involved be one to which we often have yielded before, and to resist which we have promised God and ourselves most solemnly, we sometimes feel reluctant to ask divine forgiveness. It is not that we do not wish to be forgiven; but we feel as if our heavenly Father must be tired of forgiving us, as if He must have lost all confidence in our ever doing any better. Sometimes we feel unwilling to ask pardon until at least we have made one more fight against temptation; and this is not a wholly unworthy feeling. But we can not make such a fight successfully without divine aid. And we are less likely to be given that aid unless we penitently ask for it. Let us never forget that our God loves to pardon, and never refuses those who are sincere, whatever their records may be.—The Congregationalist.