1. Fearlessly cultivate an awareness of your daily sinfulness. Be brutally honest about your pride, judgment of others, unkind thoughts and words, short-temperedness, impatience, selfishness, self-righteousness, greed, self-pity, lack of faith, lack of trust, irreverence, etc.
2. Boldly go to God with that painful awareness, with no excuses or false promises to change, and humbly thank him for loving and forgiving you unconditionally every single day because of Jesus' sacrifice which covers it all, even though you deserve nothing but his condemnation and wrath. Then gratefully bask in his love.
3. When you find yourself wanting to treat others the way "they deserve", remember what you deserve and how God loves and forgives you over and over again, and respond accordingly.
4. When you fail at #3, and you will, repeat #2. For the rest of your life.
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