Seventy Times Seven Consider that other quality, the forgiving spirit. Does this realty mean calling wrong, right’ We should remember that forgiving i* not the same thing as condoning. You condone a wrong when you act as if it were not a wrong at all, really When God forgives us he does i ot pretend that we have done no wrong, and when we forgive < thers we should not confuse wrong with right. Condoning means ap proving; forgiving does not. You can condone without love; it takes lov e to forgive. But nowhere in the Bible is it said that God forgives, or that we arc expected to forgive, apart from repentance The hard and unre pentmg 'pint makes forgiveness impossible. Forgiveness is not a one-sided affair. It calls for hu mility on both sides, for forgive i css is a restoring of fellowship, and that cannot be done in pride. But is forgiveness a sign of wcak • ss ' Wait till you have been in sulted. injured or wronged, and • on .' ill learn the truth about it. 11.1-rd rm outlines copsrlfhlfd br tb« til-,-Inn ot Christian I du, atton. S» i.tn t I < riutiHl of the < hurrhfp of < hrl«t li e I S. \ Released by WM I IBIIM I

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