Forgivenss is an amazing tool

Forgiveness is the most amazing tool you will ever use. Forgiveness is something you give to someone else that ends up helping you more than it helps anyone else. Putting it as simply as possible, if you’re not willing to forgive someone, why would God go through everything He did to forgive you? To imagine that you’re unwilling to forgive someone, is to begrudge the simplest gift for any reason, is staggering. At one point we will all be judged, not by each other but the highest power. To realize that you were forgiven for all of your sins, wrongdoings, failures, and mishaps is staggering. Yet the fact that you with-held forgiveness for someone, whether or not they were sorry, is unfathomable. If you can’t forgive, why should someone forgive you?

The act of withholding forgiveness suggests a few things. You might be holding on to whatever enmity or bitterness there because it’s all you have left of this person. You’re afraid to let go or move on because it’s admitting defeat. Maybe you’re so petty that all you have to give yourself meaning is the refusal to let go and forgive that person. It’s hard, I know, being a human isn’t easy. There is every chance in the world that as soon as you forgive that person they’ll turn around and wrong you again. You know what? That’s okay, you are called to love others in spite of their difficulties.