Forgiveness
Posted: May 11, 2008Forgive and Forget-. It is lot easier to day than to do. When our spouses do something to wound us deeply, can we ever truly forgive them ? ANd if we do forgive them, can we ever forget the paint that they have caused us ?
I read an almost unbelievable newspaper article the other day about a married couple both in their late 70s. The wife, who was wheelchair-bound, was charged for badly beating her husband in the head with her bedpen.
And the reason she gave ? She said she has committed adultery in the 1940’s in the earliest years of their marriage. She testified that her husband had constantly taunted her about her indiscretion until some 50 years later, she could take in no longer.
Maybe her husband had told her at one time that he fogave her and that he did not want to leave her, but though he said the words, it is obvious that there was no real forgiveness.
Dr Archibald Hart once said: Forgiveness is giving up my right to hurst you for hurting me. Bible states in John 20: 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven. If you refuse to fogive them. they are unforgiven. It is only when we have truly given up the right to retaliate, that we have truly forgiven.
