According to Webster, the word forgive means to excuse for a fault or offense: PARDON. .....When someone has offended us , you and I tend to think that person owes us..we react just as if that individual had stolen something from us or wounded us physically. We feel that person owes us something. Thats why Jesus taught us to pray in the Lords Prayer, ...Forgive us our debts, AS WE FORGIVE our debtors (Matt. 6:12)... According to the Bible, we are not to hold people in perpetual debt, just as we ourselves are not to be indebted to anyone else: Keep out of debt and owe no man anything, except to love one another... (Rom. 13:8). We need to learn to pardon people, to cancel their debts to us.... Our trouble is either we are still trying to pay our debt to the Lord, or else we are still trying to collect our debts from others. Just as God canceled our [those who have accepted Christ as Savior] debt and forgave us of it, so we are to cancel the debts of others and forgive them what they owe us. Chapter 4 - Emotions and the Process of Forgiveness
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 16:10:48 +0000
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