Peace Taker #6- Refusing to Forgive Others, Part 2 (TMF:681)

Monday, July 03, 2017
Peace to Live By: Peace Taker #6- Refusing to Forgive Others, Part 2 (TMF:681) - Daniel Litton
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       Now sometimes people will offend us in larger and bigger ways, and we may have to deal with that offense by talking one-on-one with the person. But most offenses don’t even need to be mentioned, if we are having a right attitude toward others behavior in this area. When we won’t let an offense go—whether big or small—and continually go over it our minds when we think of the person, that allows Satan to gain a foothold in our minds. This, in turn, takes away our peace. Odds are, if we were unwilling to forgive an offense, we will be harder on that particular person and probably harder on others as we continually focus on the wrong that was done against us. We can gain an inflated view of ourselves, too, when we think like this. We can cultivate a critical mindset toward others, thinking we are mostly right all the time and that others are mostly wrong. Really, we should be quick to forgive, wanting to forgive others their offenses because Jesus has forgiven all of us our offenses, even if the person doesn’t acknowledge or even know he or she has sinned against us. Often times when people sin against us, they don’t even realize it, just like many times we don’t realize we are sinning against them.