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"Fawget-ah-bout-it!"

This slang saying was popularized by Italian speaking characters in the movie "Godfather."

"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it" (Isaiah 43:18,19). This is what the only GOD and FATHER said in His Word. I have heard it said: "What's past is past." And, my dear sweet grandmother use to tell my mother; "No use crying over spilled milk" when I clumsily made a mess as a child, or broke something in the house. My grandmother was always full of mercy and forgiveness. See how I have remembered her after all these years? God is mercy and forgiveness. His  Son, Jesus made it possible for us to not only receive God's mercy and forgiveness, but to express our mercy and forgiveness to others.

Are you harboring a grudge against someone from the past? Up until now have you been unable to forgive them? Most of the time, the burden of our unforgiveness will never affect the other person one bit. Usually, they will go on about their lives without giving any more thought to what we are feeling. This is the nature of a grudge. The one who bears the grudge bears the most pain.

God tells us in this Scripture to forget the past and not to dwell on it any more. He knows how we will suffer if we do, and He promises to create a new thing in us if we will allow Him to.

If you have held a grudge against anyone let today be the day you release your grudge and this will be the day you will see the new thing God will do in you! He says; "Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?"

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