Long after you think you have forgiven someone, you can still be harbouring hard feelings. Some indicators that you still have work to do are these: you keep thinking about the person who hurt you and become resentful. You avoid them. You rehearse the incident mentally and in conversation. You take every opportunity to remind them of what they did. Do you know what you\u2019re doing? Justifying an unforgiving attitude! There are two things God won\u2019t share. <\/p>\n
(1) The praise that\u2019s due Him. \u2018I will not give My glory to anyone else, nor share My praise.\u2019<\/i> (Isaiah\u00a042:8\u00a0NLT) <\/p>\n
(2) The right to \u2018settle the score\u2019.<\/i> Paul writes: \u2018Never take revenge\u2026 The Scriptures say, \u201cI will take revenge; I will pay them back,\u201d says the Lord. Instead, \u201cIf your enemies are hungry, feed them. If they are thirsty, give them something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals of shame on their heads.\u201d Don\u2019t let evil conquer you, but conquer evil by doing good.\u2019<\/i> (Romans\u00a012:19\u201321\u00a0NLT)<\/p>\n
So forgive, hand the situation over to God, and trust Him to work it out! When \u2018people insulted Christ\u2026 He did not insult them in return\u2026 He let God\u2026 who judges rightly, take care of Him.\u2019<\/i> (1\u00a0Peter\u00a02:23\u00a0NCV) Resentment chains you to the offender, and you end up as a hostage. Dwelling on something your parents or spouse did, or how a colleague took credit for your work, or what someone may or may not have said about you, makes you\u2014not them\u2014miserable. You walk around stewing, and they don\u2019t even know you\u2019re upset. Don\u2019t give anyone that kind of control over your life. Forgive\u2014and move on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Long after you think you have forgiven someone, you can still be harbouring hard feelings. Some indicators that you still have work to do are these: you keep thinking about the person who hurt you and become resentful. You avoid them. You rehearse the incident mentally and in conversation. You take every opportunity to remind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}