And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. Ephesians 4:32Kenneth Hart, a psychology professor at the University of Windsor (Ontario, Canada), studied sixty-six recovering alcoholics. The individuals had one thing in common: They were all angry with someone. Teaching forgiveness, Hart found, is one way to break the cycle that causes recovering alcoholics to relapse. If they release their anger through forgiveness, they no longer have a reason to use alcohol as an escape. One of the former addicts said, "Forgiveness is more for yourself than for the person you're forgiving. For me to forgive that person sets me free."
This therapy of freedom through forgiveness is totally biblical. God is free to love us because He has forgiven our sins committed against Him. God's anger toward sin has been propitiated (turned away) by the death of Christ (1 John 2:2). Paul writes that we should forgive one another as God has forgiven us. Think how the world (your world) would change if all personal anger were immediately released through forgiveness.
If there is someone you have not forgiven, you are not yet free. Find freedom today by releasing the anger that holds you captive—forgive just as God in Christ has forgiven you.
Forgiveness is God's command. Martin Luther
This therapy of freedom through forgiveness is totally biblical. God is free to love us because He has forgiven our sins committed against Him. God's anger toward sin has been propitiated (turned away) by the death of Christ (1 John 2:2). Paul writes that we should forgive one another as God has forgiven us. Think how the world (your world) would change if all personal anger were immediately released through forgiveness.
If there is someone you have not forgiven, you are not yet free. Find freedom today by releasing the anger that holds you captive—forgive just as God in Christ has forgiven you.
Forgiveness is God's command. Martin Luther
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