Forgiving Others Their Offense, Part 4 (TMF:2810)

Friday, February 13, 2026

Peace to Live By: Forgiving Others Their Offense, Part 4 (TMF:2810) - Daniel Litton
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Where we can start is maybe you never wanted to be divorced, perhaps you didn’t want divorce as a part of your life story. If you’re a Christian, you probably feel strongly about this. However, now, since the person has left and you’ve gotten divorced, it is a part of the story. Now let’s say you also didn’t want to be a single parent—seems obvious—and you didn’t want to raise your children by yourself without the other parent. You were afraid it would damage their development. Yet, here is the situation. This is the way it now is. With both of these points of fact, the person is going to have a real difficult time forgiving the other person if they aren’t willing to accept these facts, to accept that circumstances have gone the way they have gone instead of the way they desired them to be originally. If a person isn’t willing to surrender to the situation, and to accept what has happened, and to work from there, then the person is going to constantly be looking back in time at what occurred or even what could have been—an alternate reality that doesn’t exist.

Forgiving Others Their Offense, Part 3 (TMF:2809)

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Peace to Live By: Forgiving Others Their Offense, Part 3 (TMF:2809) - Daniel Litton
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Even if it’s big, we have to work through it. We have to forgive. It’s only right. And that doesn’t mean we have to be best friends with the offender, or even friends at all, but we have to forgive them. And the only way it seems to reach this state of total forgiveness is to become full of love ourselves. We freely love and forgive seeing that that is what we want to do, and actually, what we can do. God has enabled us to do that. If you are feeling you can’t forgive someone for something, whatever the offense was, it’s because you are not surrendered on something. You aren’t surrendered on a particular thing, and that’s preventing you from forgiving. Let us draw up an example of how this works, and let’s go ahead and use a common one, since this area appears to affect a lot of Christians. Let’s say your spouse has left you for another person. It just happened out of the blue one day, at least out of the blue to you. And now they are gone. Let’s say they left you and the three kids behind. That’s tuff.

Forgiving Others Their Offense, Part 2 (TMF:2808)

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Peace to Live By: Forgiving Others Their Offense, Part 2 (TMF:2808) - Daniel Litton
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It can take people a long, long time to work through forgiving another if the offense is a big one. Paul tells us why we are to forgive, really, why that attitude is a must for a Christian. And that’s because, at the end of the day, the Lord Jesus Christ has forgiven each one of us our enumerable offenses against God. Those which we have done both externally and internally. Countless offenses. You see, if we are trusting in his sacrifice on the cross and resurrection from the dead to hold us blameless before God, so that we are seen as perfect in his sight, then we have to be willing to do the same thing for others. It’s hypocritical, Paul is telling us, if we want total and complete forgiveness from God for everyone we have ever done wrong toward, but then aren’t willing to forgive our fellow person for the wrong they did, which is usually small. Even if it’s big, we have to work through it. We have to forgive. It’s only right.

Forgiving Others Their Offense, Part 1 (TMF:2807)

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Peace to Live By: Forgiving Others Their Offense, Part 1 (TMF:2807) - Daniel Litton
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There will be times others offend us, and we will have a compliant against them. There will be times where we offend others, and generally this will likely be more inadvertent. Most offense doesn’t seem to come as a direct attack toward another, or if it is an attack usually the person has justified it within themselves so that they feel they have the right to attack, or should attack. We have all heard how we are supposed to deal with offenses, as Jesus dealt with in the Gospels. Interestingly, with the Colossian believers Paul doesn’t really get into the ‘how to’ in dealing with offenses, but rather focuses on the end result. He tells us how things are supposed to end after the complaint. And how they end is with genuine forgiveness, forgiveness from the heart wherein we no longer hold the person guilty for whatever we feel they did was wrong, or we feel they did against us individually. Depending on the offense, this can last five minutes, or it can last five years.

Bearing with One Another, Part 2 (TMF:2806)

Monday, February 09, 2026

Peace to Live By: Bearing with One Another, Part 2 (TMF:2806) - Daniel Litton
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Generally, these kinds of persons will not take responsibility for their incorrect behavior. And so, if the person identifies as Christian, this is a kind of person we are going to have to “bear” with. It could also be an unsaved family member or friend who acts like this, and if we have to keep the person in our life, we are just going to have to “bear” with them. Ideally, it seems best to distance oneself from those who refuse, whether realizing it or not, to take responsibility. However, depending on one’s situation, this isn’t always possible. But it isn’t reasonable to say we should always put up with another’s sin, or things like an attitude of self-pity or whatnot. All of us, no matter who we are, are at times going to have complaints against another. No matter how far one tries to run from this, or no matter how one tries to pretend it doesn’t happen, it certainly does. It would be nice if everyone at church could get along perfectly at all times, but if we are honest we know that’s not the way it is.