Forgiveness: A freeing character trait
I remember a bitter breakup I experienced not too long ago. I was crushed and devestated to say the least and the pain from the breakup was emotionally unbearable. I had so much anger and bitterness inside screaming “how could she do this to me?!”. The point here is sometimes we get so wrapped up in our pain and what someone has done to us that we develop a small almost myopic view of our present pain. The focus turns inward.
We’re mad at those who hurt us yet we have hurt others. We ask God for forgiveness yet we don’t forgive others.
The bottom line is this. We forget that WE too hurt others, sometimes deliberately other times by accident, but we all hurt each other and that’s where forgiveness comes in. Sure I was hurt and done wrong but over time I’m sure I hurt others in different ways and sometimes I may not have been aware of it.
Look in the mirror and realize that we as people hurt each other in different ways and it probably won’t soon change so instead of developing a “victim” mentality, understand and realize love covers a multitude of sins and forgiveness frees us from the past pains.
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