Quick Thought on Forgiveness

I just got to thinking about a question that was posed to me, which essentially boiled down to this: How will trusting in God's judgment affect how you treat people? And my response was: Well, trusting in God's judgment means nothing to my actions if I also trust in God's forgiveness of all the crap that I do to people. So where this led me was this thought:

The only way for us to be capable of showing love is for there to be no consequences for us.

If God did not erase everything we did, then all of our good actions would be tainted by the self-interest involved in avoiding judgment. Only with the full knowledge that even if I sin I am forgiven do I yield the power to return God's love and give untainted love out to those around me.