I want to talk about forgiveness.
Many people have grabbed onto this idea, and even preached, that forgiveness should serve their benefit. It’s almost as if it’s a bribe to forgive saying, “you should forgive this person because it will do you more good than them!”
That is not what biblical forgiveness is. See, the church has been infiltrated with such deception that we have distorted one of the main foundations of Christ’s teaching. We have to dress up everything; make it about us. Perhaps it’s not surprising, the bible says that in the last days people will be lovers of self.
While forgiving someone may well help you heal and move on, especially if it’s traumatic, that should not be the reason you forgive. If that is yours, then you are coming from a place of selfishness and you have not really forgiven.
For Christ taught it well. When He was hanging on a cross, His ears filled with the voices of mockery from below, He prayed to the Father. He forgave them. You should forgive even when it’s not going to benefit you at all. You should forgive because it’s going to help the other person. Humble yourself.
The preaching of fake forgiveness is a work of deception and is not biblical. Christ forgave us for our benefit, not His. He had every right to send us all to destruction, but He didn’t.