Col 3:13 “Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.”
Forgiveness is restoration. If we say we forgive but refuse to extend trust, we haven't really forgiven. We are asking the person to prove themselves to us in order to be worthy of our full forgiveness. We're making them work for our grace, which is not the model Christ exemplified. Jesus never requires us to earn back His grace, nor His trust. Remember it was Jesus’ sacrificial act that forgave us and offered us restoration with Him. When we choose to make excuses not to forgive and sacrifice for others well-being, restoration, and growth – we’re spurning the very identity Jesus died to provide. I’m eternally dead without God’s grace; who am I to manage it.
Being a Christian means forgiving the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in me… HSAY
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