Forgiveness Is Not Pretending

Forgiveness does not minimize what happened. It refuses to let the past keep collecting rent on your future.

Forgiveness does not minimize what happened. It refuses to let the past keep collecting rent on your future.

“Jesus breathed on them and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’” (John 20:22)
Breathing requires both inhaling and exhaling. The Spirit-filled life is the same — we inhale His presence, and we exhale His forgiveness.
In a culture quick to divide and slow to forgive, the Spirit is calling us to breathe again.
Inhale His Spirit.
Exhale His forgiveness.
Stay unoffended.
Live in truth.
The breath of God is not only filling us — it’s freeing us.