Too Quick to Forgive?

A few weeks ago me and a friend were sitting down and talking about things going on, just catching up when at one point in our conversation the phrase came up, "I'm too quick to forgive sometimes."
  I admit it was me that said it, and any of you that know me well know that I am probably one of the faster ones to throw out the "hey it's all good, I forgive you." I absolutely hate letting anything sit for more than a couple days (much to the amusement of my friends sometimes after I say something like "I refuse to chat them for the X amount of days" and then end up trying to fix our differences that night)

 But as I went home after hanging out and I laid in my bed the phrase kept going through my mind. "Too quick to forgive."

Too quick? What kind of phrase is this? This is a phrase that has permeated our life and our culture, I've heard it everywhere in all sorts of different circumstances. But really, is this a valid phrase that we as Christians can be or should be using?

Forgiveness Part 3

Hey Everyone!
   I hope you're all doing well! I finally got a letter in the mail the other day from the Batesville Fire Dept. letting me know that my application has been accepted and they want me to come in and interview and test me for the position of EMT-B, all your prayer would be much appreciated for that :)

Well it's finally here.. the post you've all been waiting for. The conclusion to what became a 3 part series on Forgiveness. Today we'll be covering how this all applies to your relationships with one another in the physical.

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Now then, all this has been said how this applies to us and God and so forth, how does it apply to me and my friends, or the jerk at work that I can't stand?

First of all: Forgiveness is one of the fruit by which people will know you by. It is also one of the Chief evidences showing a truly repentant spirit, a forgiving one.

There is a saying I heard not too long ago that I actually quite like. "A forgiven person is to be a forgiving person."

When God has forgiven us, do we really have any right to hold back forgiveness from someone else?

Forgiveness (part 2)

Hey Everyone!
     Well, it's finally officially here! Most of all of you are finally done with Finals and all the testing! Time to enjoy the summer!! Time for the endless amounts of Grad parties and ceremonies and cleaning to prep for all that, and then the cleaning afterwords... yeah I guess you guys still have another month or so before you truly get your break ;) lol. But Congrats to all you guys that made it!!

Now, on to business.
Last week was the first post I did on Forgiveness, specifically dealing with why we need to continually ask forgiveness. I want to just quickly apologize for any confusion about that, I did not mean to indicate that Christ's sacrifice was not sufficient once and for all. By no means whatsoever!!! I was simply saying that as Christians when we realize we have sinned there should be a conviction from the holy spirit, and then going to God in repentance and turning away from that sin.

Forgiveness

Alrighty guys, so finally here I am with the long awaited special request Blog... I was asked to do a post on Forgiveness, and to get a little more specific I was asked whether or not one should try to rebuild the relationship after something happens. I'm going to try and answer that as best as I can, so please bear with me. And this is one topic where I really would love you guys to comment and give me your thoughts :)

This is quite an extensive topic, and truthfully I'm not sure I even scratch the surface of it, nor do I think that I got all this down pat. But I hope that this will make sense.
One last thing, this is more than likely going to be at least two posts... maybe even three long.

Now, first I feel like I have to explain some other things first before I answer that specific question up there.