Thought For Today: “Forgiveness Doesn’t Mean Forgetting”

To forgive and forget is unrealistic. Forgiveness isn’t forgetting the offense; rather it’s choosing to no longer remember the offense against the other person.

First Corinthians chapter thirteen tells us love keep no record of wrongs (verse 5). When someone wrongs or hurts us, instead of writing it down for posterity, we need to choose to no longer store it for future use. It’s choosing to no longer use it against them.

There’s something better than forgiving and forgetting, and that’s forgiving and seeing the good God will bring from the forgiveness process.

Someone said, “The happiest people are less forgetting and more forgiving.”