Getting Unstuck
Point 1: It is impossible to live a life free of the opportunity to be hurt and offended.
Why is it hard to forgive?
We have a wrong idea of what it means.
We don't think we can do it
We want to understand why they hurt us
Point 2: Unforgiveness hurts us, not the person who hurt us
Point 3: Unforgiveness weighs us down
Point 4: If we do not forgive, we open ourselves up to torment
23 “Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 24 As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold was brought to him. 25 Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.
26 “At this the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’ 27 The servant’s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.
28 “But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins. He grabbed him and began to choke him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he demanded.
29 “His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.’
30 “But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. 31 When the other servants saw what had happened, they were outraged and went and told their master everything that had happened.
32 “Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33 Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’ 34 In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.
35 “This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.”
Matthew 18:21-35
Why is my pain perpetual and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you indeed be to me a deceitful brook, like waters that fail and are uncertain?
Jeremiah 15:18 (AMPC)
Therefore says the Lord to Jeremiah, “If you return (and give up this mistaken tone of distrust and despair), then I will give you again a settled place of quiet and safety, and you will be my minister. And if you separate the precious from the vile (cleansing your own heart from unworthy and unwarranted suspicions concerning MY faithfulness), you shall be my mouthpiece.
Jeremiah 15:19 (AMPC)