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Past hurts can be healed. Forgiveness is possible. The power to forgive comes from experiencing God's own great love for us.
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Just the term forgiveness can bring to mind unwelcome memories or unresolved pain. Forgiveness is only necessary where there is hurt. And, if you are interested in this subject then likely someone has hurt you deeply. There’s a wound that you want healed.
All of us know what it’s like to be hurt by other people. It’s only human to be grieved, bitter, resentful, to want to retaliate, and even forfeit wounded relationships.
In our world, every once in a while, we may witness stories of forgiveness that overcomes hate, but overall we’re mostly okay with harboring a grudge wherever we think it is justified.
We often breathe the air of human resentment of one degree or another.
Yet, when we have hurt other people and feel remorse, we long for reconciliation. We understand that in an ideal world love would win more often, and we wish hatred weren’t so prevalent.
The Bible answers our longing for forgiveness. First, by helping us understand that our longing for reconciled relationships is a faint echo in our hearts of a greater need.
by Bibles.net
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
EPHESIANS 4:32 NIV
Cross-Shaped
Forgiveness
This graphic illustrates the biblical teaching that the only way we are able to forgive others is if we have first received God’s forgiveness. Feel free to dowload or share this graphic!
We are to forgive
because God forgave us.
But we are also
to forgive as or like
or in the same manner that
he forgave us.
The theme of God’s forgiving love is so fascinating that we may linger awhile, and a long while too, upon that bright example of forgiveness which God has set before us, but from it all I hope we shall be gathering grace by which to forgive others even to seventy times seven.
by Charles Spurgeon | SourceHe does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
Summary of "Forgiveness" by J.C. Ryle
This simple graphic gives you the main three points of J.C. Ryle's message, "Forgiveness." It asks us three searching questions, helping us think deeply about forgiveness. Old as this message may be, we encourage you to listen to it if you are struggling to forgive or believe you're forgiven.
Five Qualities of God’s Forgiveness
by Charles Spurgeon
You can't forgive
somebody without
absorbing the cost.
Either that person
pays for it or you do.
On the cross, God
didn't just forgive us,
he paid the cost himself.
To be Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. This is hard. It is perhaps not so hard to forgive a single great injury. But to forgive the incessant provocations of daily life—to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter, the deceitful son—how can we do it? Only, I think, by remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us” (Matthew 6:12). We are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse God’s mercy for ourselves. There is no hint of exceptions and God means what he says.
by C.S. Lewis | SourceWhen we forgive, it is a poor and humble business compared with God’s forgiving us, because we are only forgiving one another, that is, forgiving fellow-servants; whereas when God forgives us it is the Judge of all the earth forgiving, not his fellows, but his rebel subjects, guilty of treason against his majesty. For God to forgive is something great; for us to forgive, though some think it great, should be regarded as a very small matter.
by Charles Spurgeon | SourceGod’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Forgiven people
are known by
how they forgive.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.