Just reading in my Moody, Today in the Word this morning, and this paragraph really made me think.
The devotion was about Joseph had forgiven his brothers for what they had done to him prior to him being in Egypt.
The forgiveness described in today's passage is offered freely - but is not without cost. It can be granted only by those who see their forgiveness as an extension of the forgiveness that Jesus Christ offers. It is grace that enables us to forgive (Matt 18:21-22). The secret to overcoming bitterness is not to forgive and forget. It is to remember God and forgive.
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions” - Rev. Richard Mickelson - friend and brother in Christ and Rainer Maria Rilke (German poet)
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I have taught my kids to say, "I forgive you" (and mean it) when someone apologizes to them. Maybe I should have them instead say, "I forgive you, because God forgives me."
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