Read this quote in "Life" today and laughed. The observation is right though the attitude is not.
'Forgiveness itself is a hostile move that says "You don't matter enough for me to go whack you."' American Legal scholar, William Ian Millder
Holding a grudge just means that person has 'power' over thee, 'cos he's able to stir one's emotions. Forgiveness really says, you don't matter. I'm a bigger person than you are and nothing you do to me is able to shake me.
But it's difficult to be a bigger person. 'Cos there's this thing called emotion and somewhere within ourselves, we demand justice for the wrong that others have done unto us.
That's why in the bible, it says, "Forgive others, as God for Christ's sake, has forgiven you."
Knowing how much we have sinned and how much we have forgiven through the death of God's son, we are are able to forgive others for the transgressions against us.
That's why the ability to truely forgive, is first, according to the verse, having that revelation that we are forgiven.
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