The weight of the holy requirement of perfect, unbroken love is more than any person, except Jesus Christ, can bear. Love silences explanation, penetrates escuses, and humbles the heart, preparing the heart to be captured by the gospel of grace. Utlimatly, repentance is a hungry, broken return to God.
Dan Allender
Im learning that forgiveness isnt a feeling. Who really ever wants to forgive? If you need to forgive someone it means that they have harmed you in some way. That never feels good. I dont think Jesus sat on the cross and had a wave of emotion that made him forgive us. It was a conscious effort. As much as I know that, I want it to be a feeling. I want to feel the warm fuzzies inside. I want to forgive and move on with my life. I want to have this grand epiphany that allows me to move past my hurt.
I think my grand epiphany is just that; forgiveness is my decision to move past my hurt only through grace. That grace will allow me to let go without any answers, without any closure and without any pride.
