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The Tyranny of Unforgiveness

The Tyranny of Unforgiveness

Unforgiveness, of course, is also quite powerful. Consider the many conflicts across the globe, and how they revolve around old hurts and grievances, ancient injustices, and bad blood between peoples that stretches all the way back to Ishmael and Isaac. How many families and how many marriages across time immemorial have been sundered by the inability and unwillingness to—I know it’s an old cliché, but it’s a great one—let go and let God? The choice to hold on to hurts and remember every wrong is both a wound and a sin that keeps on wounding.

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Thoughts on Heartholds and Destinies

Thoughts on Heartholds and Destinies

It’s no coincidence that the final puzzle pieces of my destiny fell into place as I was doing the hard work of both purifying and healing my heart. Indeed, a basic reason why many of you remain clueless as to your calling is that your hearts are still impure and immature. Only a healthy and wholesome heart can see with the eyes of faith. And without faith, you’ll never have the courage to take that leap into the unknown when the time comes. Without purity you can’t mature enough to faithfully pass the Wilderness tests, and therefore your destiny dies stillborn, a Promised Land in promise only. Indeed, failure to live out one’s destiny is an even greater sin than sexual immoralityprecisely because destiny, unlike sin, encompasses the very reason you were put on this planet in the first place.

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