forgive

You know that you are to forgive. Do you find it easy to do this with a perfunctory statement when asked and quick mental assent when you are not? Yet I want you to forgive from the heart. Have I not also told you to pray for your enemies and do good to those who despitefully use you. How fervent are those prayers? If you are righteous then you may consider those who harm you to be unrighteous. Do you believe in the effectiveness of my redemptive work? Can you see it applied to them? If you forgive from your heart you will pray for my redemption in their lives that they would surpass you in grace and godliness and rejoice to see it happen. What is impossible for you is possible for me.