Forgiveness October 14, 2010
I found this quote in my notes, and I cannot seem to find or remember the source, but here it goes:
“Forgiveness is costly. Forgiving people must give up the right to get even. … Forgiving people let God run the universe.”
There is a lot of truth in this statement. I think forgiveness is so hard because it is in fact so costly. We have a great sense of justice and fairness in our culture today, but those values that we hold so high, even in the church may not be as Biblical as we assume they are. We focus so much on our rights and so little on the needs of others. The irony is that we know and readily admit that our unforgiveness hurts us more than it hurts the person whom we cannot seem to forgive. Unforgiveness then may be more about control than it is about pain.
What are your thoughts?
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