Letting Go of Bad Things that Happen, Part 3 (TMF:2353)

Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Peace to Live By: Letting Go of Bad Things that Happen, Part 3 (TMF:2353) - Daniel Litton
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       Here is a hard truth. It’s not that we cannot forgive a person for a wrong, or forget a bad event that has happened, it’s that we are really choosing not to. I mean, let’s take an example. We know that Peter denied Jesus three times at the moment he needed Peter most. If there was any moment in Jesus’ friendship where he needed Peter the most, it was at the moment he got arrested. And why did Peter do this? Was it because he, himself, turned against the Lord? No, it was because he wanted to save himself. He really didn’t want to die, even though he had claimed he did and would. I think Jesus understood that, and in understanding that, that really it wasn’t personal, that Peter just wanted to save himself, he was probably more easily able to forgive Peter for the offense. And yet, sometimes people really are aiming to be malicious against us. In these cases do we believe that we really cannot forgive them? Or, again, are we choosing rather not to forgive?