Day Twenty–One // March 12 // Forgiveness “Forgiveness is the final form of love.” – Reinhold Niebuhr –
To live in faithful, God-honoring, Gospel-proclaiming relationships, we must learn to forgive. It is, perhaps, one of the most vexing disciplines for the Christian to achieve: forgiveness. In fact, forgiving a wrong done to us is sometimes more painful than the wrong, itself. And what we’ve experienced to be true is that it’s sometimes easier to forgive our enemies than it is to forgive our friends. It’s easier to forgive those at our fists than it is those by our side – those who should know better, those who should know us better. But life gets in the way. We hold onto those secret hurts. We cling to our hidden pains. We nurse them and pamper them. Instead