Consider Forgiveness to Free Yourself

When you are being eaten alive by the results of someone doing you wrong, consider forgiveness as the solution.

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I know. That sounds completely ridiculous.

You are probably thinking, “but you don’t know what they did to me!”

You are right. I don’t know what your situation is, and you don’t know mine. Just let me assure you I have been through some things I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. Some of these things have left me scarred forever (both physically and mentally).

But, I want something different in my life. I don’t want these horrible, evil, manipulative people to continue to have even the slightest bit of control over me. While I can’t erase what they did, I can remove their further influence in my life.

I was brought up in a Christian home and I was always taught that we were supposed to forgive just like Jesus did. I can’t tell you how many times I heard the saying “forgive and forget”. (Which by the way, is NOT in the Bible!) I will admit I have always struggled with this. In fact, I was recently in a Bible study group and the leader was suggesting that if someone yanked your chair out from under you repeatedly, that our reaction was to continue forgiving as long as they kept doing it. Being the…