Just as the toilets in our bathrooms contain material that stinks, so does the unforgiveness, bitterness, resentment, jealousy, hatred, envy, strife, sarcasm and criticism that we allow to accumulate in our hearts. We can flush our toilets in the bathrooms, but it takes the cleansing atoning blood of our Saviour to flush away the stink in our hearts.
If we are having trouble forgiving people because they have hurt us, we need to follow the example of our Heavenly Father and forgive them for Christ’s sake. If we will ever understand that we don’t have a right to harbor unforgiveness in our hearts, I think we will live a more productive and peaceful life. It certainly will make Jesus happy if we will forgive as He has told us to do.
Sometimes we become so cold and indifferent to people that Jesus has to take us to the wood shed to correct us. He tries talking to us but if we refuse to listen and obey Him, then He corrects us with love. How is your heart today? Is it filled with things that stink in the nostrils of Jesus? If so, allow Him to take all of that away through His grace, mercy and understanding. He Loves you very much and wants you to be happy, but we can never be happy without being in right standing with our Saviour.