Forgiveness
is one of the most powerful healing forces mankind has the privilege of
choosing. So, what prevents us from choosing forgiveness rather than bitterness
or rage? If vengeance were cleansed from your emotions, you would then have to face
the fact of pain and loss created by choices made by you or others.
A woman approaching her sixtieth
birthday had divorced her husband thirty years earlier. Although remarried for
twenty of those years, the woman’s anger and bitterness directed toward her
first husband still surfaces with the slightest provocation. Consequently, an
ever-present struggle with bouts of depression robs her of happiness and peace.
Divorce is difficult to
forgive. One of the most perplexing steps in forgiveness is asking God to help
you view someone as the Lord Jesus views him or her. Jesus came to seek and
save the lost, so he sees everyone as worthy of forgiveness. Forgiving others
is for your benefit as much as it is for the one who hurt you so deeply.
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Never
take vengeance into your own hands, my friends; stand back and let God punish
if he will. For it is written: “Vengeance belongs unto me; I will recompense,”
says the Lord.
~Romans 12:19 Phillips – The New Testament in Modern English
The Lord
Almighty says, “The day is coming when all proud and evil people will burn like
straw. On that day they will burn up, and there will be nothing left of them.
But for you who obey me, my saving power will rise on you like the sun and
bring healing like the sun’s rays. You will be as free and happy as calves let
out of a stall.”
~Malachi 4:1-2 Good News Bible
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