Learning to Forgive

[Chad]

Learning to Forgive
David Jeremiah

And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 8:32

Recommended Reading
John 8:31-36

When we forgive someone, we're not minimizing the harm they caused nor condoning the sin they've committed. We're simply choosing to place the offense into the nail-scarred hands of Christ.

Paul J. Meyer wrote about a woman named Renee who hated her father because of long-term abuse. When Renee became a Christian at age forty-one, she faced a dilemma. She knew she'd been forgiven of all her sins through Christ, but she had no desire to forgive her father. As she studied the Bible, however, she began realizing that forgiveness isn't a feeling but a requirement. One day she prayed to God: "I, Renee, release my father into your loving arms. Please release me from the bondage of unforgiveness." Her attitude toward her dad began to change, and so did his own heart. He eventually confessed Christ as his Savior and was baptized at the age of eighty-four.

Learning to forgive others helps both the forgiven and the forgiver.

Forgiveness does not mean we have to allow ourselves to be mistreated … (It) does mean that we allow God to work in our lives and in the lives of the people against whom we hold bitterness.
Paul J. Meyer

Read-thru-the-Bible
Numbers 29:1 -- 31:54

 

[Furious_Love]

It did take a long time to learn to forgive, the more I knew about Jesus and what He required of me the more I leaned on forgiveness for my earthly father. My earthly father was a hedonist and even on his deathbed I prayed God would come to him and he would be forgiven. From that lesson I learned about forgiveness with my earthly father it has helped me countless times to forgive others. Thankyou Chad for a timely post.