God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. —Romans 5:8
Do you have a situation where forgiveness seems impossible? The hurt is too great for you to overpower it. Your love for that person is gone.
Here is what Scripture assures us: it will never be the depth of your love that causes you to forgive such heartless acts and attitudes. It will never be within your power to overlook the wicked lies and wild justifications of those who have made you distrustful of just about everybody. It will be—it can only be—the love of Christ transplanted into your believing heart that can exchange your weakness for His strength. So because He has forgiven us— and because of His boundless life which now indwells us—what offense is too great for us to forgive?
“To be a Christian,” C.S. Lewis said, “means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in us.”1 When it comes to forgiveness, God wouldn’t command us to do something He would not enable us to do. Or that He hasn’t done Himself.
1 C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 182.
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Choosing Forgiveness: Moving from Hurt to Hope ©2022 Revived Hearts Foundation
Scripture taken from The CSB
Make it Personal
What person does it seem impossible for you to forgive? Ask the Lord to grant you His power to forgive beyond your ability.