Not forgiving someone isn’t teaching the other person a lesson, nor is it protecting you in any way. It’s making the choice to stay in pain. It’s ratcheting the already too-tight belt tighter and tighter with each remembrance. Undealt-with pain and a mind at peace cannot coexist. And if we have any chance at all of living at peace with others, we’ve got to first live at peace within ourselves. So, is there ever a place for vindication? Justice? Fairness? Keep reading the verses of Romans 12.
