Inspiration

Forgiveness is not foolishness. Forgiveness is, at its core, choosing to see your offender with different eyes. 

To forgive is to move on, not to think about the offense anymore. You don’t excuse him, endorse her, or embrace them. You just route thoughts about them through heaven. You see your enemy as God’s child and revenge as God’s job.

By the way, how can we grace-recipients do anything less? Dare we ask God for grace when we refuse to give it? This is a huge issue in Scripture. Jesus was tough on sinners who refused to forgive other sinners. Remember His story about the servant freshly forgiven a debt of millions who refused to forgive a debt equal to a few dollars? He stirred the wrath of God: “You evil servant! I forgave you that tremendous debt. . . . Shouldn’t you have mercy . . . just as I had mercy on you?” (Matthew 18:32, 33 NLT).

In the final sum, we give grace because we’ve been given grace. (From Facing Your Giants by Max Lucado)

Taken from The Lucado Life Lessons Study Bible