So What’s So Hard With Forgiveness?
What’s so hard with forgiveness?
Especially in Christianity, forgiveness is regarded as a real virtue. When someone has done us wrong, it shows great maturity that we could honestly forgive them.
But why is it so hard sometimes? Because we know that the person will probably do us wrong again, but the next time they won’t be as surprised when they’re forgiven. That’s my fear anyway. I’m afraid of being exploited for my forgiveness. This is along the lines of “turn the other cheek” - just how much should a person yield to another person? Should someone ever take a stand, and NOT turn the other cheek? Shouldn’t we expect there to be times like this?
Similarly, should there be times when people are not forgiven?
I don’t know - I’m beyond pessimistic about this world, and so far I’ve been pretty much hopeless in it. Forgiveness is something I’ve always known to be a virtue and a great thing, but maybe because of some past experiences I’ve just found it extremely hard to forgive as of recently. I want to protect my heart - I don’t want people to destroy it, have me forgive them, then leave my heart open for another attack.
I guess this comes more out of recent circumstances than anything else.
Sorry, my thoughts are a mess tonight, and there’s no easy way to organize all of this, so I’ll just leave it.