Unforgiveness is a burden that no one should carry because it traps you under the load and creates bondage that then becomes difficult to extricate oneself from; sometimes producing a lifetime of bitterness, anger and resentment and even hatred that flow into other areas of life to create barriers and produce an impasse.
Over the next several blog posts, I would like to draw a comparison between unforgiveness and forgiveness in the hope that there will be some introspection, confession and change that will bring freedom from this monster and hope for greater blessings.
Consider this: Unforgiveness keeps us in the dark and ruins relationships, but forgiveness brings us into the light and makes fellowship with others possible.
Meditate on this: "This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all. So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth. But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses from all sin" (1 John 1:5-7).