Repentance and Forgiveness in Family Life
by: Elaine Walton and Hilary M. Hendricks
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Repentance is something often preached about in church, but how about in our own families? This chapter touched me the most in class because we were posed a question that went along the lines of, what is the thing that someone in your family could do that would be the hardest to forgive. Of course, most people said that betrayal or cheating/adultery would be the hardest thing to forgive.
After thinking about this for some time, I find that my testimony has grown even more because of the feeling that I've felt on this subject. Jesus never committed these sins, but He suffered for all of them. I have a hard time admitting that I could forgive someone for doing something like this to me, but He has already forgiven all those who have, are, or will commit this most grievous sin. He truly is amazing.
Walton and Hendricks do a great job in this chapter of talking about forgiveness and then putting it to the family level. They share that it's an interactive process that takes more time than we usually want to take. I've found this is true, especially when it involves forgiving those closest to us.
Something that my mother has always tied in with repentance is improvement. Repenting and then improving is something that we always need to do, because, as the authors stated, it's not repentance if your going to just do it again and again and again.
After thinking about this for some time, I find that my testimony has grown even more because of the feeling that I've felt on this subject. Jesus never committed these sins, but He suffered for all of them. I have a hard time admitting that I could forgive someone for doing something like this to me, but He has already forgiven all those who have, are, or will commit this most grievous sin. He truly is amazing.
Walton and Hendricks do a great job in this chapter of talking about forgiveness and then putting it to the family level. They share that it's an interactive process that takes more time than we usually want to take. I've found this is true, especially when it involves forgiving those closest to us.
Something that my mother has always tied in with repentance is improvement. Repenting and then improving is something that we always need to do, because, as the authors stated, it's not repentance if your going to just do it again and again and again.
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