Forgiveness: God’s Gift to allow you to be who He made you to be, in the face of real evil and real pain. What is it? What is our part? What is God’s part. The answers to these questions may open the door to your freedom. Forgiveness is a two part process, the first part, is yours. You do your part, and it connects you to the work that God already performed through Jesus on the cross. Let’s examine.
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From BobHamp.com
So it happens. The fallen-ness of our world does its work, and someone, somewhere hurts you. The assault begins to try to prevent you from allowing the Nature of your Creator and Redeemer to flow through you. Then you go to a pastor or christian counselor and they say the dreaded words. “You have to forgive…”
So we either begin to resist, or try to comply. Resistance comes from a variety of misunderstandings, and if compliance comes without understanding we may try to forgive and wonder why we still start to twitch when we see “that woman” at the grocery store.
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No Regrets – the Power of Forgiveness
On September 28th, about 3 weeks ago, I got a call at 6am. My Father had unexpectedly passed away during the night in his sleep. He was 76 years old.
As the oldest son, I immediately packed up some clothes and made the four-hour drive home with my wife. I knew it was going to be a difficult week. So many emotions, so many things to do, so many tears to shed.