{"id":30718,"date":"2021-01-17T11:16:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T10:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=30718"},"modified":"2021-01-17T11:16:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T10:16:30","slug":"the-nature-and-blessings-of-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=30718","title":{"rendered":"The nature and blessings of forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;Forgive us the wrongs we have done, as we forgive the wrongs that others have done to us&#8221; (Matt. 6:12, GNB)<br \/><br \/><\/strong><br \/>By <strong>Sam Kputu<\/strong><br \/><br \/><br \/>Ever heard of this popular saying &#8211; &#8220;to err is human, to forgive is divine&#8221;? We all desire forgiveness, even when we don&#8217;t deserve it. On the other hand, we all struggle to forgive, even people that desire it of us.<br \/><br \/>What exactly does God&#8217;s divine forgiveness mean, how far does it reach?<br \/><br \/>\u00b6 It means REMITTANCE of the penalty for sin or wrong<br \/><br \/>\u00b6 It means REMOVAL of the guilt and shame the goes with the wrong<br \/><br \/>\u00b6 It means RESTORATION of broken relationship and fellowship with the offender. That is what it means to forgive and forget.<br \/><br \/>Forgiveness comes from two words: FORE and GIVE. It is something you give ahead of the offence. Before man ever sinned, the lamb was slained (1Peter 1:19-20)<br \/><br \/>If that is what forgiveness means to God, it must not mean less to us who are His children.<br \/><br \/>\u25aa\ufe0e Kputu, a staff of Calvary Ministries (CAPRO), lives in Lagos, and sent this via WhatsApp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Forgive us the wrongs we have done, as we forgive the wrongs that others have done to us&#8221; (Matt. 6:12, GNB) By Sam Kputu Ever heard of this popular saying &#8211; &#8220;to err is human, to forgive is divine&#8221;? We all desire forgiveness, even when we don&#8217;t deserve it. On the other hand, we all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}