are doing, and therefore need not to be forgiven?
Well Jesus did it, He forgave those who betrayed him, crucified and killed him. Upon all the disgrace, the nakedness, the beating and the pain he went through from Pontius Pilate’s palace to the Cross. He chose to forgive. Wouldn’t you have prayed for revenge, wouldn’t you have prayed for God to destroy them or prayed for the same thing to happen to them? Even when He was once rejected, His disciples asked Him to call fire from heaven to burn them, but he rebuked them and refused to do that.
God is in the forgiving business. He forgave David of his adulterous and murderous act but punished him for his wrong doing.
Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have
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Forgiveness does not turn a blind eye toward injustice, toward sin, calling evil good.
In the parable of the Unforgiving Servant -Matthew 18:27;32.
There, the master of that servant was moved with compassion, released him and forgave him the debt he owed -verse 27.reads
And his master was angry and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him -34.
As Christians and good citizens we should have a holy anger against crime, bribery, murder and so on. Wanting to see our police and courts (judiciary) to function well and protect us from evil men. Perpetrators must be punished and sometimes be put behind bars (prison).
In the case of the story the parents of those 5 young girls killed forgave the murder and his family, without holding a grudge against his, without nursing bitterness against his, without seeking revenge by killing the murder’s children.
Don’t hold them in resentment, release them from your heart, don’t hurt yourself, don’t hurt your health, depression, stress, heartaches some even grow mad and begin to hate everybody associated with the offender or the person involved. It is not easy to do that, it takes a lot of courage and prayers to do