Forgiveness...

I wonder when you’ve been hurt?
It might not have been something big, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t important.

I wonder when you’ve hurt others?
It might not have been something big, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t important.

I wonder if you can pinpoint the times when one of those things has been the result of the other, and you’ve hurt someone because you’ve been hurt?
That might be the person who hurt you, or it might be someone else who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I was asked to speak about Ephesians 4:32 : “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.”

But I needed a little bit more context, so want to add in the verse before it as well.

Ephesians 4:31-32 (New International Version)

31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. 32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

The Bible talks a lot about forgiveness, and suggests emphatically that it’s a good thing.

It talks about forgiveness being a sign of love, of being a way of restoration, a way of beginning to rebuild relationships, but mostly as a way of re-discovering Shalom...

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