I encounter unforgiveness in nearly every online mentee that I counsel. Unforgiveness is a universal sin. Check your own heart. Is there anyone that you don’t speak kindly to, or speak kindly about to others?

Colossians 3:13 says, “Bearing with one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.” Forgiveness is a command not an option. 

I have mentees that are emotionally tortured because of the unforgiveness in their hearts towards those who hurt them. Whether they are a believer or unsaved, the principle is the same. Matthew 18:35 says about torturers, “So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.”

Jacob was physically tortured in prison. Yet when one of his former guards heard him speak, the guard came up to Jacob after the meeting. Jacob recognized him, smiled, and stuck out his hand to shake the guard’s hand. Corrie Ten Boom did that also one time after she had spoken and a former guard came up. Forgiveness brings inner healing.