When you hold on to unforgiveness, it harms you. If your forgiveness depends on the other party repenting, you may be setting yourself up for a long time of bitterness and emotional pain. The perpetrator doesn’t “get away with it” when you forgive. There are still consequences to evil acts.
“Vengeance is mine, says the Lord. I will repay.”
(And God will do a much better job of it than you ever could.)
If your forgiveness depends on the other party repenting, you may be setting yourself up for a long time of bitterness and emotional pain.
And if you're going around forgiving people when they have no intention of repenting, then you're facilitating their sinful nature and you're not helping them.
You're personally failing on faith, hope & love, because you don't think helping your brother to salvation is real or possible, and you just plain don't care.
When you hold on to unforgiveness, it harms you. If your forgiveness depends on the other party repenting, you may be setting yourself up for a long time of bitterness and emotional pain. The perpetrator doesn’t “get away with it” when you forgive. There are still consequences to evil acts.
“Vengeance is mine, says the Lord. I will repay.” (And God will do a much better job of it than you ever could.)
And if you're going around forgiving people when they have no intention of repenting, then you're facilitating their sinful nature and you're not helping them.
You're personally failing on faith, hope & love, because you don't think helping your brother to salvation is real or possible, and you just plain don't care.