🤝Forgiven is the past tense of forgive. 💐

  Forgiveness "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you"

Be kind, to one another, oh my. Then others will think I’m a push over and take advantage of me. Be tender hearted? Then I will for sure be taken advantage of. Forgive? I might if I feel it was my fault; but holding on might give me an advantage one day. The Apostle Paul looks at this matter of forgiveness much differently.

Ephesians 4:32 (KJV) And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

When one understands what forgiving is.   Everyone has been taken advantage of. Had harsh things said to them and sometimes we were the ones dishing it out. That is when we should apologize. Apologizing is when we express regret, taking responsibility, acknowledging our wrong, seeking forgiveness. If everyone would learn that forgiving one another is the key to the prison door that makes you the prisoner. Learning to forgive is the way to be free.  

The Bible tells much about forgiving. In the book of Luke there was a young man who left home. He took all he had and wasted it on a way of lifestyle not pleasing to his father. In other words he couldn’t live like that living at home. When he finally reached the bottom he remembered how good he had it at home. He decides to go home to ask for forgiveness. As he gets in seeing distance of where he was raised something happens he never expected. He sees his father running towards him with his arms wide open. The father grabs his son and kisses him. The son says to his father that he had sinned and was not worthy to be called his son. The father's forgiveness was seen in his actions toward his son. The son’s forgiveness was seen in his apology. Here is the example of what the Apostle Paul was teaching in  

Ephesians 4:32 when he wrote these words “forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.” There is not a one of us that our Heavenly Father will refuse to forgive. We must see how we ourselves have done someone wrong before we can ask for forgiveness.