Forgiveness

How Do You Respond When Offended?

When someone offends you, deliberately or ignorantly, what do you do? How do you balance the scales of justice, when you feel like you just got whacked? How do you get the debt created by someone’s sin or transgression paid down? Here are three ways many of us try. 1. Sweep it under the rug method? We sweep the offense…

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Forgiveness

An Eye for an Eye

The desire to punish people who unjustly hurt or offend us seems very natural and reasonable to us. You hurt me; I must hurt you back. The Bible refers to this as the “eye for an eye” method. “If man injures his neighbor … so it shall be done to him: … eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as…

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