Pete Enns has an excellent and moving post on forgiveness up on his website. For anyone who has been through the past few years at WTS, it speaks volumes. For those of you who haven’t or have no idea what WTS even stands for, the post is very much worth reading.
Pete writes,
When we forgive, we know God more clearly.
Even when the wrong done to us carries with it such an overpowering sense of malice, when we are filled with disgrace, humiliation, isolation–even then we forgive. Especially then.
Because,
When we feel this way, we have the privilege of feeling what Jesus felt–disgrace, humiliation, isolation,
and
When we forgive, we are most like Jesus.
Forgiveness is deciding what kind of person you want to be, what kind of life you want to live. It is a decision whether to be more or less conformed to the image of Christ. That decision is before us more often than might think.
3 November 2008 at 7.34 pm
Dude… is it just me, or does the guy in that picture kinda look like Darryl Hart?
Either way, great thoughts on forgiveness by Enns.
7 November 2008 at 3.17 pm
JB: I wish I had that much hair.