My job isn’t to fix another person or make them see my side of things during a conflict. Even when I feel justified to be mean, I have an opportunity to obey God by offering an extension of the forgiveness I’ve been given. Selah
Thus sayeth the Lord; I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” Jeremiah 31:34 ESV Or if you prefer: He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.* Psalm 103:12 TLB So, a question for those who say they have forgiven...
Forgiveness is not pretending like it didn’t happen or like it didn’t hurt. That’s called lying. Forgiveness is a decision to release a debt regardless of how you feel. @drtonyevans
A question for those who say they have forgiven so-and-so, and then recite a list of the transgressions that the forgiveness covers: Do they have a similar list of the transgressions of which God has forgiven them?
We love because God first loved us. If we say we love God, but hate others, we are liars. For we cannot love God, whom we have not seen, if we do not love others, whom we have seen. The command that Christ has given us is this: whoever loves God must love others also....