One of the most powerful and helpful things we can do to be healthy emotionally, physically and spiritually, is to practice forgiveness.\u00a0 Forgiveness enables a person to release buried anger, resentment, bitterness, shame, grief, regret, hate and other damaging emotions that live inside of us.\u00a0 Forgiveness releases layers and years of hurt and begins the healing process.\u00a0 Forgiveness leads to an ability to love well.<\/p>\n
It is important to know what forgiveness is and what it is not.<\/p>\n
We should never base our decision to forgive on a person’s good behavior compensating for previous hurtful behavior.\u00a0 Forgiveness is something that happens inside of you, it comes from your desire to forgive for the sake of forgiving.\u00a0 Waiting until a person is worthy of forgiveness will feed your damaged emotions and cause further hurt.<\/p>\n
Always remember that it takes only one person to forgive, but it takes two people to reconcile.\u00a0 You can forgive a person even if they don’t forgive you, but reconciliation always requires the wills of both parties involved.<\/p>\n
There is so much more to forgiveness than what is covered here.\u00a0 Some of the principles I covered come from Neil Anderson and his booklet called Steps to Freedom in Christ.\u00a0 If your having a hard time making the choice to forgive, ask God to help you.\u00a0 He can give you the strength to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the most powerful and helpful things we can do to be healthy emotionally, physically and spiritually, is to practice forgiveness.\u00a0 Forgiveness enables a person to release buried anger, resentment, bitterness, shame, grief, regret, hate and other damaging emotions that live inside of us.\u00a0 Forgiveness releases layers and years of hurt and begins the … <\/p>\n