Good stuff! This is the kind of thing you begin trying to sort out in cases when someone has legitimately wronged and hurt you in a deep way, and usually without repentance. Questions that before seemed so obvious, now not so. Who do I forgive? What should that look like? What even IS forgiveness?
Forgiveness is not restoration. So that makes it harder to see. And we have a call and need to let go of all the negative emotions and even sin on our part in reaction to being wronged even without repentance. Is that forgiveness? Does it come down to a game of semantics? Good things to sort through….
Man! Thank you for the comment. I was challenged initially when I started processing what real forgiveness is.
I also wouldn't ever say holding a grudge against someone is a good thing to do, which seems to lead to a heart ready to forgive when repentance happens.
Good stuff! This is the kind of thing you begin trying to sort out in cases when someone has legitimately wronged and hurt you in a deep way, and usually without repentance. Questions that before seemed so obvious, now not so. Who do I forgive? What should that look like? What even IS forgiveness?
Forgiveness is not restoration. So that makes it harder to see. And we have a call and need to let go of all the negative emotions and even sin on our part in reaction to being wronged even without repentance. Is that forgiveness? Does it come down to a game of semantics? Good things to sort through….
Man! Thank you for the comment. I was challenged initially when I started processing what real forgiveness is.
I also wouldn't ever say holding a grudge against someone is a good thing to do, which seems to lead to a heart ready to forgive when repentance happens.