Always Repent to the Lord

I don’t know,what make me reach out recently to write to a ole friend, except maybe I wanted to reconnect with friends I knew in college and rediscover them , but then I remember what Thomas Wolfe said in the book “October Fair” that " You Can't Go Home Again!"

I don’t understand alllot of things in life and after careful consideration, I am not sure what to make of this friendship. In contacting this friend, and still consider her a friend, I wanted to relay to her that I may have done wrong to her and others, but I repented.

So often we think people will except that as a given, but it is not to be. Mormon Church Elder Neal Andersen of the quorum of Twelve Apostles writes that:

”the invitation to repent is rarely a voice of chastisement but rather a loving appeal to turn around and to “re-turn” toward God.” :

I have come to that point in my life and I have spend allot of times wondering if I would receive forgiveness from my friends, who I offended in not realizing that forgiveness will not come from the them, but the Lord. They often times use friendship as a weapon to exact punishment, when they cannot in anyway use it as such!

Paraphrasing what would Elder Ansersen would say: The Lord’s has desire for us to come to Him and be wrapped in His arms is often an invitation to repent.

“Behold, he sendeth an invitation unto all men, for the arms of mercy are extended towards them, and he saith: Repent, and I will receive you.” Alma 5:33.

What I discovered is that sometimes friends are fair weather and the Lord is not. I not perfect, and I not willing to sit and cry because I can get forgiveness from a friend. Their unwillingness is their problem, not mine. I am amazed that the Lord has embrace me and has shown mercy to me, no matter how selfish the sin was. I know that the Lord has forgiven me and he is eager to forgive my sins.

As marvel at the privilege for me to turn away from my sins I most say that I value real forgiveness and fruits of the gospel, and removing and the pain my heart. Jesus declares,guilt

“Will ye not now return unto me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you?”3 Nephi 9:13.

My ole friend may not forgiven me and the walls to that friendship was up to her. I may have not made myself clear to her, but I discovered that it friends do not forgive they themselves have to answer to the Lord. I have done my part forgiven them, and that is all I can do! I’ve done my best I was a true friend to them. I remember what the Lord has asked us!

Not sure they can say the same thing? I willing to asked for forgiveness, , but I come to realized it really isn't important who the reply comes from, either the person I done wrong too, or from the Lord? It really doesn't matter!