Common Sense Commentary:
Forgiveness is giving up a prideful grudge against someone and giving, in it's place, an humble obedience to God. Forgiveness of an offender is not easy, but it is easier than the burden and decay of an unforgiving spirit. The more spiritually mature and wise a person becomes, the quicker and more sincere their willingness to forgive. Grieving unforgiveness is opposite to the essence of God and robs a person of time, peace, joy, love and even health. To aim an unforgiving grudge at another person is as self-destructive as aiming a shotgun, whose barrel is full of dried mud, at them ... and pulling the trigger. Unforgiveness does far more damage to the unforgiving heart than it does to it's target. That is why, when Simon Peter asked Jesus how many times he must forgive his brother, Jesus answered, "seventy times seven". Jesus knew, not only the redeeming power of forgiveness upon the guilty, but the abundance of the fruit of the spirit within the forgiving heart. Love is far more powerful than hate. Love gives life to the giver and the receiver. Hate gives only regret, pain and death. RB
"Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft
shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto
thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven." Matt.18:21-22.
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