FORGIVENESS

Colossians 3:13 “Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.”

The dictionary definition of “forgive” is to cease to feel resentment against an offender, that is, to pardon one’s enemies. Corrie ten Boom, a Christian woman who survived a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust, said, “Forgiveness is to set a prisoner free, and to realize the prisoner was you.”  We will know the work of forgiveness is complete when we experience the freedom that comes as a result. We are the ones who suffer most when we choose not to forgive. When we do forgive, the Lord sets our hearts free from the anger, bitterness, resentment, and hurt that previously imprisoned us. We are to get rid of victim mentality and forgive by faith out of obedience to God’s command to forgive.  I have found that prayer is one of the best ways to break down the wall of un-forgiveness in my heart. When I begin to pray (Matthew 5:44) for the person who has wronged me, God begins to give me new eyes to see that person as He sees the person and a new heart to care for that person as He cares for the person. Forgiveness demands daily commitment. I know you can do it by His grace, so you can have daily inner freedom and peace!

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