Forgiveness Equals Restoration

Written by Zhey Chua |Posted on May 29, 2009 | Comments

This is just a really quick post and I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to post my thoughts while they are still fresh.

When God sent His Son to die on the cross, our sins were automatically forgiven. And when our sins were forgiven, our relationship with God was also instantly restored.

Thinking about that, I asked myself how come it is so hard for us to find it in our hearts to extend the same grace and mercy that was also bestowed on us by a Holy God? People sin against us and we ‘forgive’ them for their offenses, yet we reject them afterward, we refuse to have any connections with them anymore, we cut the ties, we refuse to have any relationship with them and we think that it is enough that they are forgiven for their offense against us. Is that really how man should forgive?

God has set a standard for us Christians to follow and again, this would all still boil down to love and/or the lack of it in our hearts. Forgiving means opening the gates for the restoration of a relationship, loving and welcoming that person back into your life, they go hand in hand together. Otherwise, God would just forgive us but still send our souls to hell.

I don’t know, I am just basing my arguments here on how man is restored into his relationship with his Creator. Any other thoughts?