Koinonia Hour - Brook Ardoin - The Cleansing Work of Forgiveness

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Today Brook Ardoin joined me to talk about about the cleansing power of forgiveness. Forgiveness is one thing very important to God. And the practice of forgiving one another is probably the one thing most exercised in the lives of the people of God. There is so much to more to forgiveness than what is thought.

There is a work involved in forgiveness in the spirit and soul's of people. It is more than a flat confession, or a momentary "feeling" of holy guilt. The work of forgiveness changes the person for the rest of their lives. It is not only that we forgive others, but there are many that refuse to forgive us.

We discuss how the enemy can bind both people. Not just the one who needs to forgive. Brook and I discuss our falling out from two years ago. When I acted on something I should have given better judgement on and hurt her feelings. We spoke about the pain and injury of loss, and the grief of unforgiveness. We also spoke about how the Lord moved in my life in forgiveness in reaching out to her in true hearted contrition. Consequently bringing about the beauty of healing in her life that she had been praying for.

We felt that discussing what happened, and how the Lord moved in our lives would be something many people would benefit from. There is such a transforming power of forgiveness that feels as if a new birth takes place after the stormy darkness of unforgiveness. There are new rivers that flow from forgiveness, new ascents up the mountain, new life and light.

"Forgiving costs us our sense of justice. We all have this innate sense deep within our souls, but it has been perverted by our selfish sinful natures. We want to see “justice” done, but the justice we envision satisfies our own interests. We must realize that justice has been done. God is the only rightful administrator of justice in all of creation, and His justice has been satisfied. In order to forgive our brother, we must be satisfied with God’s justice and forego the satisfaction of our own." ~Charles Spurgeon