Part 12 | Letting Go and Moving Beyond

THE FORGIVENESS PROCESS
Part 12

LETTING  GO  AND  MOVING  BEYOND

Introduction

When this series began, I wrote the following: “What’s so hard about forgiveness?  If you want to know the truth: Everything!  From beginning to end it can be the most difficult process ever undertaken by some, very difficult by others, and a real struggle for all the rest.  Forgiveness is foreign to our fallen human nature even though it is at the same time the absolute center and heart of Christian faith.   Look at the world around us that lives on revenge and getting even.  Here we are, thousands of years after the coming of Christ, and we still think we can solve life’s problems by anger and getting even instead of forgiveness and reconciliation.  Will we ever learn?”

Now here we are in Part 12, wrapping things up and assessing what all this means and how it needs to impact our daily walk through life.  If we have allowed God’s grace to take over and for His Spirit to be in control of all the circumstances in our lives, then it is indeed time to “Let Go and Move Beyond” what once bound us as the offended and the offender.  In Part 11 with the journey of Margaret, grace allowed her to let go and begin moving beyond.  That is what God wants to have happen to all His children.  But achieving that is a work of grace many never discover.  This does not mean God is unable to deliver us.  It means, for whatever reason, we have not chosen to participate in that deliverance. (more…)