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Corrie Ten Boom, a Dutch Christian who was imprisoned for helping the Jews escape the Nazis during World War II, shares this true story in her book The Hiding Place.
I’m going to read directly from the book so that I don’t mess up the story:
“It was a church service in Munich that I saw him, the former S.S. man who had stood guard at the shower room door in the processing center at Ravensbruck concentration camp.
He was the first of our actual jailers that I had seen since that time.
And suddenly it was all there - the roomful of mocking men, the heaps of clothing, Betsie's pain-blanched face.
“He came up to me as the church was emptying, beaming and bowing.
‘How grateful I am for your message, Fraulein,’ he said.
‘To think that, as you say, He has washed my sins away!’
“His hand was thrust out to shake mine.
And I, who had preached so often to the people in Bloemendaal the need to forgive, kept my hand at my side.
“Even as the angry, vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them.
Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more?
Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him.
“I tried to smile, I struggled to raise my hand.
I could not.
I felt nothing, not the slightest spark of warmth or charity.
And so again I breathed a silent prayer.
Jesus, I cannot forgive him.
Give me Your forgiveness.”
She continues to write that she then took his hand, and the most incredible thing happened:
“From my shoulder along my arm and through my hand a current seemed to pass from me to him, while into my heart sprang a love for this stranger that almost overwhelmed me.
And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world’s healing hinges, but on God’s.
“When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.”
Without God’s forgiveness and love flowing through us, we will never be able to adequately forgive others.
Selfishness broke the trust
bitterness only hurts us…nobody else
Sometimes it’s hard to forgive, but we need to always forgive.
Dishonesty led to anger
Maybe it’s hard for you to forgive, but you need to choose forgiveness over everything else.
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Anger led to a broken relationship
…Jacob goes to Laban
Eventually Esau was able to forgive
Story about having to forgive Tim
Forgive ebcause God forgave us ()
bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
“It was a church service in Munich that I saw him, the former S.S. man who had stood guard at the shower room door in the processing center at Ravensbruck concentration camp.
He was the first of our actual jailers that I had seen since that time.
And suddenly it was all there - the roomful of mocking men, the heaps of clothing, Betsie's pain-blanched face.
“He came up to me as the church was emptying, beaming and bowing.
‘How grateful I am for your message, Fraulein,’ he said.
‘To think that, as you say, He has washed my sins away!’
Forgive to show other people that Christ forgives ()
“His hand was thrust out to shake mine.
And I, who had preached so often to the people in Bloemendaal the need to forgive, kept my hand at my side.
“Even as the angry, vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them.
Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more?
Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him.
Forgive to restore relationships..just like God did ( )
“I tried to smile, I struggled to raise my hand.
I could not.
I felt nothing, not the slightest spark of warmth or charity.
And so again I breathed a silent prayer.
Jesus, I cannot forgive him.
Give me Your forgiveness.”
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
She continues to write that she then took his hand, and the most incredible thing happened:
“From my shoulder along my arm and through my hand a current seemed to pass from me to him, while into my heart sprang a love for this stranger that almost overwhelmed me.
And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world’s healing hinges, but on God’s.
“When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.”
Without God’s forgiveness and love flowing through us, we will never be able to adequately forgive others.
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