Jesus says something startling in Luke 17: it would be better to be tied to a millstone and thrown into the sea than to cause someone else to stumble into sin. Stephen Davey uses that jarring warning to launch three reminders Jesus gives His disciples, be careful how you live, be forgiving, and serve faithfully, but he lingers longest on forgiveness, and on a question a lot of believers quietly wrestle with. What do you do when the person who hurt you never repents, never even apologizes? Davey's answer isn't what you'd expect: forgiveness, he says, can become a transaction between you and God alone, the same way Jesus prayed forgiveness over soldiers who never asked for it. You may not get reconciliation. But you can still hand the resentment over and walk free.
When It's Wrong to Forgive Someone
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