It seems like today we see the word “peace” all over the place. And the popular peace symbol decorates jewelry, bumper stickers, T-shirts, and notebooks. But peace is so much more than a word or a symbol. Peace means different things to different people. In a part of the world where there is a lot of fighting, like the Middle East, it can mean the absence of war. To a busy teacher with an active class of students, it can mean the break when the kids are at recess. To brothers and sisters who are arguing, peace is the time when...
They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. – Genesis 3:8
“Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1-2).
“My brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God . . . What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law’’ (Romans 7:4, 7).
How do you climb a mountain? One step at a time. Overcoming unforgiveness is a lot like that as well. It’s a process with small victories along the way. There may be moments when you feel you have forgiven someone, or yourself, only to rediscover through a trigger that those same raw emotions of anger, bitterness, fear and regret have risen once again to the surface. But at those times I want to encourage you not to give up, but to keep going – step by step. Because when you carry unforgiveness with you throughout your life, i...