In Touch Bible Study Notes
My thoughts on this study are as follows:
Forgiveness is never for the other person. It’s about a decision made in our heart, where we truly choose to forgive those who wronged us. We don’t ever forget what they did, but if we want forgiveness from the Lord, we have to extend forgiveness to others. Sometimes the person we have to forgive is ourselves, and sometimes that can be harder than forgiving others. Both are possible, however. It won’t ever be easy, because hurt can run deep, whether caused by others or by us. We have to forgive if we expect God to show us mercy for our mistakes too.
“Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
Ephesians 4:25-32 KJV
“Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:”
Hebrews 12:14 KJV
