It is funny that I feel the older you get, the harder it is to forgive someone. I can understand now, getting older (25 years of age) and all that. Sometimes, the matter is too serious and the stake is so high that it is just not in the agenda. To forgive does not necessarily to support that person keep doing wrong things to you and sometimes we should rebuke the person who has done wrong to us out of love for him/her. But I believe love should dominate our way of thinking.
When Paul said: "Forgive as the Lord has forgiven you", does that mean that we should forgive and suppress our anger? Since the model there is God's anger is still being pour out to Jesus, it is not free and there is a price that must be paid by someone. How about us? When we are angry with someone because he/she has done wrong to us, who should receive punishment?
Is it Jesus? Jesus died for my sin, yes, but this is not a matter between me and God, it is between me and other human being.
Is it us? maybe
Is it the person who has done wrong to us? I don't know, but if it is the other person, can it still be called forgiveness?
Who else?
Who should be punished?
"This is how the world will know that you are my disciple, if you love one another"
Arrghhhh, why is life so complicated? :)
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