The Price of Forgiveness

God’s unconditional pardon of our sin-debt destroys any excuse we might come up with for holding onto resentment. We try and draw a line at the amount of times we are going to accept an apology, or specify which offenses we are going to forgive, but Jesus drew no lines at the cross.

If the Father’s will is that we forgive, why have we got to consider it? We want to get our thinking done at the moment : decide today that you are going to make a response to wounds and humiliation with forgiveness. We walk in a spirit of forgiveness when we understand that God is sovereign over this universe. Nothing harmful can touch us unless it passes thru His permissive will.

That’s not to assert God induced or caused it ; however, God permits some upsetting scenarios so that he will make use of our hurt to develop personality, to show feeble spots, or to drive us nearer to Him. But as followers, we trust Jesus Christ to take that pressure off us. When we pardon, we want to approach our offender with the intention of reconciliation, doing whatever God directs to get our relationship right.