I’m sharing this quote from N. T Wright today because I need to be reminded of it myself.
“Those who learn to forgive discover that they are not only offering healing to others. They are receiving it in themselves. Resurrection is happening inside them. The wrong done to them is not permitted to twist their lives out of shape. Forgiveness isn’t weakness. It was and is a great strength.”
We must not let our lives be twisted out of shape by the wrong done to us. I sometimes hate to concede this, but forgiveness truly is the only way forward. The ability to forgive is a great strength, and although it is hard work, through the grace of God and the help of the Holy Spirit, we can do it.
[1] N. T. Wright, The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus’s Crucifixion (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2016), 386.