Locked Within Yourself?

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." 

Paul Boese

Unforgiveness locks one inside a prison walls. Those walls aren't built by the person you're refusing to forgive but by yourself.  You are locking yourself in a prison which the other person may not even realise that you've been hurt or offended by them. 

Watching crime shows you'll realise that it is unforgiveness that builds bitterness, hatred, self-loathing, discontentment, among other things, resulting in an enactment of volitude - whether expressed internally or externally. 

We need to learn to forgive, and sometimes this isn't easy but there's been signs that show unforgiveness kills one internally... And those times that we've thought we've forgiven, but something comes up late to remind us of that hurt equals another chance to forgive and forgive continually...

Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times. (Matthew 18:21, 22 NIV)

(Read Matthew 18:21-25)