And further I would suggest that this reluctance to forgive (or its corollary the desire to retain a quiver full of offenses for future ammunition) - is the very reason so many Christians do not experience miracles in their lives:
INDEED.
WELL AND ACCURATELY SAID.
SOMETIMES, THOUGH, it seems like horrible things are easier for SOME to forgive than the daily niggly things between them and their spouses or parents or co-workers and bosses.s
Sooner or later—until The Lord has succeeded in getting us to cooperate with crucifying ALL THAT FLESH that would rear it’s head as prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner
OF
THEIR
sins . . .
while letting ourselves so faithfully off the hook . . .
Sooner or later, The Lord will put HIS FINGER on an area requiring our forgiveness. And when we balk, He will likely take a step back in intimacy and WAIT.
Then He tends to start pulling feathers out of our nest until we see in the mirror more accurately.
And it doesn’t really matter how horrible the particulars are.