person said something hurtful to you? Maybe you played it off and acted

like it didn’t bother you, but later on you can’t seem to get it out of

your mind. The truth is that it is difficult to let go of wrongs done

against us. In fact, the larger the offense, the more difficult it is

to disentangle ourselves from both the pain and the fallout. But

following Jesus invites us to a way of healing. And part of that way is

to forgive. You cannot live in love and hold onto the bitterness of

hurt at the same time. Jesus invites us to know some transformational

truth about ourselves that helps us respond to others by letting go of

what they did to us. It asks us to believe that He is better at justice

than we are and that our healing lies on the other side of forgiveness.