Grow in love - a Sunday thought

The Jordan River

Reading Mart DeHahn's blog Thinking About he shared the insight that to grow as a Christian one can not forget how much Jesus forgave us. I don't think that means to relive the past and beat ourselves up about our past. It is more like remembering how much Jesus loves you to forgive you that you have no time to be cold to others but if God loved me than how much more can I forgive and love others. It actually liberates our relationships to move ahead and not dwell on broken, negative repeated failings. To grow in our "New Life in Christ". Where we put on the new and take off the old. Growing here is experience and it takes on the characteristics of God's love and forgiveness and embraces that which is true and best for one another. Relationships can become more fulfilling and beneficial.
I like the thoughts of Mart's blog and you can follow this link http://www.beenthinking.org/

Peter remembering that Christ forgave him of denial wrote these words: "5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, 6 knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness, 7 godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 The person who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins." 2 Pe. 1:5-9

Growing even now is still possible if I just remember. Keep walking