Can you imagine holding a grudge against someone for more than 20 years, yet many of us do this. A gruge like this doesn't hurt the person it's aimed at, but keeps the holder in a perpetual state of mental bondage. Allowing someone to take up negative space in your head is self-destroying and serves no good.
I've heard people on television talk about how much they hate, and will never forgive the person that killed or murdered their love one. Now, someone who has suffered such an atrocity surely has a right to feel the way they do, but they have only allowed the perpetrator to have more control over their life, and they will be in bondage to them until they forgive.
Forgiveness does not come easy for most of us. Our natural instinct is to recoil in self-protection when we've been injured. We don't naturally overflow with mercy, grace, and forgiveness when we've been wronged, but we only hurt ourselves.
Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. Colossians 3:13 (NIV)
I've heard people on television talk about how much they hate, and will never forgive the person that killed or murdered their love one. Now, someone who has suffered such an atrocity surely has a right to feel the way they do, but they have only allowed the perpetrator to have more control over their life, and they will be in bondage to them until they forgive.
Forgiveness does not come easy for most of us. Our natural instinct is to recoil in self-protection when we've been injured. We don't naturally overflow with mercy, grace, and forgiveness when we've been wronged, but we only hurt ourselves.
Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. Colossians 3:13 (NIV)
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