Forgive: Everywhere I look

Well, I missed the last ladies' meeting at Redeemer where they discussed chapters one and two from the book Choosing Forgiveness by Nancy Leigh DeMoss. BUT I have been reading the book and have been confronted by the concept of forgiveness and the necessity to pursue it.

I talked with a friend earlier in the week about the book itself... The book isn't really very profound, meaning it doesn't really explain away deep doctrinal concepts of old. BUT I think why the book has been so impactful in my life is because I desperately need to forgive... And I think that the Lord is using anything and everything in my life (every resource I pick up or listen to) to point me in that direction.

Take for instance Life As A Vapor, a 31-day book of daily meditations by John Piper. This was today's reading:

Kill Your Anger Before It Kills You or Your Marriage

1. Ponder the right of Christ to be angry, but how He endured the cross an an example of long-suffering. 1 Peter 2:21

2. Ponder how much you have been forgive and how much mercy you have been shown. Ephesians 4:32

3.Ponder your own sinfulness and take the beam out of your own eye. Matthew 7:3-5

4. Ponder how harbored anger gives place to the devil. Ephesians 4:26-27

5. Ponder the folly of your own self-immolation, that is the numerous detrimental effects of anger to the one who is angry--some spiritual, some mental, some physical, and some relations. Proverbs 3: 7-8

6. Confess the sin of anger to some trusted friend, and if possible, to the offender. James 5:16

7. Let your anger be the key to unlock the dungeons of pride and self-pity in your heart and replace them with love.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7

8. Remember that God is going to work all your frustrating circumstances for your good as you trust in His future grace. Romans 8:28 and James 1:2-4

9. Remember that God will vindicate your just cause and settle all accounts better than you could. Romans 12:19 and 1 Peter 2:23

Really, as my friend pointed out to me earlier this week, unforgiveness is rooted in the inability to see one's own sinfulness as having been forgiven and to in turn (naturally, or rather supernaturally, actually) forgive. 

Thoughts to ponder.