Forgive and DON'T Hold Grudges

I USED to COMPLETELY CUT OFF people who did me WRONG or who would IGNORE me or who were NEGATIVE ALL the time. 
I'd do it without a WARNING. 
In doing so, I have HURT SO many people.
I realize that now. 
Instead of LOVING and FORGIVING others, they'd be IRRELEVANT to me. 
Do you see how HYPOCRITICAL that is of me? 
I called myself a Christian and yet my ACTIONS would show otherwise. 

God wants YOU to LOVE and FORGIVE others.  
Verses About Loving Others:
1 John 4:19 "We love, because He first loved us. If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also."
 John 13:34 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another."
1 John 4:10-11 "In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another".

Verses About Forgiving Others: 
Matthew 6:14-15 "For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions."
Colossians 3:13 "Bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you."
Ephesians 4:31-32  "Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another,  tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you."

It's EASIER SAID than DONE!
We say, "Oh I'll forgive but I WON'T/ REFUSE to FORGET!" 
That's STILL holding a GRUDGE! God DOESN'T WANT any of us to do such a thing. 
Leviticus 19:18 "You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord."
It took me YEARS to FINALLY REALIZE it!

It's HARD to FORGIVE and step up and APOLOGIZE ! 
It's HARD to LOVE PEOPLE who did you WRONG! 

A LIFE CHANGING moment happened when I apologized to folks I've HURT. 
God CAN RESTORE a friendship or relationship that you ruined. 
God's Word says that He will work out ALL things for the good of those who follow Him!
APOLOGIZING and FORGIVING CAN be LIFE CHANGING! 

If you have a HARDENED heart, ask God to SOFTEN your heart into FORGIVING OTHERS. 
Ezekiel 36:26 "Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh."
YOU WON'T REGRET it! 
I DON'T REGRET it at all! 
Y'all, DON'T STAY AWAY from NEGATIVE people. 
God will sooner or later bring you to YOUR Nineveh!
In the book of Jonah, God brought Jonah to HIS Nineveh. 
Jesus HUNG AROUND all sorts of NEGATIVE people! 
So should we!