Forgiveness: Setting Love Free

Forgiveness does not deny the wound. It refuses to let the wound become our identity, our permanent home, or the author of our future.

Scripture

Ephesians 4:31–32

World English Bible (Public Domain)

³¹Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

³²And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Which wound still directs your present?

Forgiveness is not calling evil good, erasing consequences, forgetting, abandoning boundaries, or immediately restoring trust.

Trust is rebuilt through truth, time, and changed behavior. Forgiveness is the refusal to make hatred our home.

Forgiveness does not deny the wound. It refuses to let the wound become our identity, our permanent home, or the author of our future.

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