Forgiveness is the hardest to give but of necessity to do. The reason is because forgiveness releases the one who has been wronged by someone else. When a person refuses to forgive, it keeps that person under bondage to the one who has committed the wrong. When one forgives, God’s grace, and love fills that person with peace and strength that frees him or her, helping them to go forward in life.

“Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.” Colossians 3:12-13 ESV