It doesn't matter how right you feel, how justified you think you are, or that you think you are righteous enough to somehow be exempt from being a forgiver. The truth is, apart from the grace of a holy, just and always right God, you and I will always sin and fall short. We can't live right enough to hold another person's soul captive in his sin.
And, just in case you think I don't get it, read what the Word of God says in Romans 3:9-11, "...what then? are we better than they? Not at all....for it is written, 'there is none righteous, no not one.'"
That means apart from the atoning, shed blood of Jesus - we have nothing. Before a holy righteous God we stand clean in Christ alone. It's in Him alone that our hope is found. It's in Him, Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior, that we live and move and breathe and have our being.
So what does this mean? It means, we have to choose to let go again, again, again and again. And sometimes it means we have to pull the scab back and let the poison ooze out so we can heal.
Hey, I'm right in there with you. None of us has arrived or yet attained the prize. Let us not lose heart. Let's keep the faith. Let's finish the race. Let's endure for the prize, "the crown of righteousness," through Christ alone!
Stephanie
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