Do You Need to Forgive?

Ron Nikkel shares this excellent quote in the Huffington Post today:

When we don’t forgive, we drink the poison ourselves and then wait for the other person to die. And we take the knife that has hurt us and we stab ourselves with it again… But when we forgive, We pour out the poison of the enemy and of the devil and we don’t let the poison stay in us and we don’t let the poison make us into poisonous snakes! So that we don’t become like the person we despised and who persecuted and tortured us. (Iranian prisoner, Pastor Saeed Abedni in The Christian Post 22 March 2013)

Go to the source of this quote: Ron Nikkel: Do You Need to Forgive?

Follow the link for the rest of his article or stop here and ponder the wisdom of this quote. Your choice…