I recently read the biography of a Doolittle Raider in World War II. He spent 40 months in a Japanese prison. While in prison he became a believer. He eventually went back as a missionary for thirty years. 

Reading his story documented again for me the power of forgiveness. Japanese war hero Captain Fuchida, had also become a believer. He read Jacob’s tract, “I Was A Prisoner Of Japan” and it changed his life. He became Jacob’s interpreter, as they went from city to city sharing how Jacob forgave his guards. Countless came to Christ.

Ephesians 4:32 says, “And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.” Romans 8:32 says, “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?”

In Genesis 37:4 it says that Joseph’s brothers, “…could not speak peaceably to him.” Yet in Genesis 50:20-21 we read of the power of forgiveness. It says, “…And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.”