“Often we remain so focused on the one who perpetrated the evil deed that we don’t see our own bondage to resentment or even hatred. But when you forgive, you’re the one who is set free.”

A thought by Darren Whitehead and Jon Tyson (2011-07-19) from their book, Rumors of God: Experience the Kind of Faith You´ve Only Heard About (Kindle Locations 1356-1357). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

We live in an age of bondage. So many of us are in bondage to what someone else has done to us. But of course that is our choice. We choose to let someone else have that much control over our life. That is our choice. We didn’t have a choice in what happened to us but we do have a choice in how it affects us.

Now it is so easy to rehearse and rehearse and relive and relive until that is all we think about. We hear a certain song and we relive the hurt. We drive by a certain place and we relive the hurt. We come to a certain holiday and we relive the pain. Now we may not realize it but all of that reliving is a choice. We can also choose to quit letting that other person have so much control over our life. We can but it is difficult.

It is so difficult to not relive anymore. It really is but you can if you choose to release them by forgiving them. Now you understand they don’t deserve it. That is a given fact but you will never be free from the bondage you are in until you forgive them. That is also a fact. So that is your choice. Bondage or freedom? You choose. Rehearse, relive or release? It’s your choice.

So what are you going to do?

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