"Forgiveness", in my ministering to others, has not been about what lies in the forgiver, but about who God is. One of the greatest expressions of forgiveness, I think, is one that is not usually associated with forgiveness: Psalm 23:5: "You prepare a table before me ..." This being the case, what reason is there left not to forgive? But supposing that one doesn't genuinely know the God who prepares a table? Then forgiveness may be impossible. OBSERVATION: There is a (secular) debate as to whether forgiveness is deserved. But with forgiveness having its source in God, I would suggest that it is only a grace. It is never deserved.
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