No matter how deeply a person may be scarred by wrongdoing and evil, with the moral courage and strength available to them through Christ, they can turn from the corrupt way and receive forgiveness and a new life from God. But they receive even more. God will forget the guilt of the past, never again to taunt them with it.
Divine forgiveness obligates us in turn to forgive any who wrong us. Jesus said as much when He taught His disciples to pray, “Forgive us . . . as we forgive (Matt. 6:12). It is therefore a mark of the true Christian always to be free from resentment and revenge.
by Armor D. Peisker "With Open Face, 1983."
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