The concept of forgiveness just doesn’t seem fair. It is a hard concept to grasp, but when you really try to understand it, it just doesn’t seem to make much sense from a human standpoint. Getting something we don’t deserve or seeing someone else not getting something that we feel they deserve just doesn’t seem fair. In life, we get so wrapped up in making sure everything is fair. We spend so much time making sure that rules are fair, opportunities are fair, laws are fair, sports are fair, everything must be fair.
When we get wronged by someone, we feel that we somehow have the right to get even. We somehow believe the only thing that is fair is that in some way that person might get the same pain or be wronged in the same way we have been. Those feelings are very human, but are so far from what we are called to do and luckily so far away from what God does for us each and every day. We fall so short every day. We sin each and every day in ways we can’t even imagine. Luckily for us, God forgives us for every single one. We don’t deserve it. We don’t earn it. We just get it. It’s called Grace.
Forgiveness is free and undeserved. When we want to truly model forgiveness, we must fight our human urges. We must think of the free gift we get from God each day. We must realize how big of gift that we get every day and use that as motivation to share the gift with others. We must remember that we don’t get to carry around some “get even” card just because we were hurt by somehow. We need to simply realize how awesome God’s grace is and be willing to let go and share it with others.
You are forgiving and good, O Lord, abounding in love to all who call to you. Psalm 86:5
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