We sometimes feel that, if we forgive someone, justice will not be served.\u00c2\u00a0 They’ll get off scot-free.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll be doing little more than giving them permission to do wrong again, seeing how easily we let them get away with it this time.<\/p>\n
From a human perspective, this makes sense.\u00c2\u00a0 But our minds need to be renewed to think God’s way.\u00c2\u00a0 According to God’s Word, wrongdoers will get their just due.\u00c2\u00a0 But we’re <\/em>not the ones responsible to mete out the penalty….<\/p>\n Letting the offender off your <\/em>hook doesn’t mean he’s off God’s <\/em>hook.\u00c2\u00a0 Forgiveness releases the accused from your custody and turns him over to God — the righteous Judge — the one and only One who is both able and responsible for meting out justice.<\/p>\n And so what feels like the height of unfairness, what seems to be nothing more than giving our offender the pass, actually becomes for us a step of freedom….<\/p>\n But listen to Joseph’s response to his distraught brothers:\u00c2\u00a0 “Don’t be afraid.\u00c2\u00a0 Am I in the place of God?”<\/em> (Genesis 50:19 NIV).<\/p>\n What wise, humble words!\u00c2\u00a0 Am I in the place of God?\u00c2\u00a0 Is it my job to make you pay for what you’ve done?\u00c2\u00a0 Do I really want the added burden of this after all I’ve been through already?\u00c2\u00a0 Isn’t it foolish to think that revenge could be as sweet as advertised — sweet enough to make up for the pain of all these years?<\/em><\/p>\n — Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Choosing Forgiveness, <\/em>p. 92-94<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We sometimes feel that, if we forgive someone, justice will not be served.\u00c2\u00a0 They’ll get off scot-free.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll be doing little more than giving them permission to do wrong again, seeing how easily we let them get away with it this time. From a human perspective, this makes sense.\u00c2\u00a0 But our minds need to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}