forgiveness

forgiveness

Trusting in God involves the loss of our agenda, our flaming torch, so that we die to our inclination to live a lie. It requires forfeiting our rigid, self-protective, God-dishonoring ways of relating in order to embrace life as it is meant to be lived: in humble dependence on God and passionate involvement with others. -- Dan Allender

You don't forgive someone merely for their sake; you do it for your sake so you can be free. Your need to forgive isn't an issue between you and the offender; it's between you and God. Forgiveness is agreeing to live with the consequences of another person's sin. Forgiveness is costly; we pay the price of the evil we forgive. Yet you're going to live with those consequences whether you want to or not; your only choice is whether you will do so in the bitterness of unforgiveness or the freedom of forgiveness...Forgiveness deals with your pain, not another's behavior. -- Neil T. Anderson

As I was reading my email, I came across this article in Christianity Today. A coincidence that the topic was on forgiveness when I was doing my QT on forgiveness? I think not!! =) click here
(the link might change after a month or so....)