饒恕 Forgiveness
- Becca
- Sep 29, 2025
- 3 min read
但是我告訴你們：要愛你們的敵人, 為那些逼迫你們的人禱告，好讓你們成為你們天父的兒女。（太5：44-45a）
「饒恕」一詞讓我想起。。。
Erica Kirk的感人致詞，她有充份理由不原諒暗殺丈夫的犯人，但她選擇從苦毒得釋放，對仇敵施與仁慈。她的見證震撼世界，鼓勵我們，並解開復仇的鎖鏈。
When I think of forgiveness, I think of:
Erica Kirk’s touching memorial speech. While bitterness sticks, stinks, and ruins, her forgiveness releases, renews and transforms. It is grace to the undeserved, and an inspiring testimony for the world, and breaking the cycle of vengeance.
Jim Elliot，年輕的宣教士，遭到奧卡族（Auca）人用長矛刺殺殉道。他的妻子Elizabeth Elliot充滿勇氣和順服主的心，帶着兩歲女兒與該部落同住，以基督的愛愛他們。
Jim Elliot, a young missionary martyred under the spears of the Aucas tribe, and his wife Elisabeth Elliot, whom after the incident, lived among those same people with her 2yo daughter, loving them by God’s love.
還有Corrie ten Boom彭可麗，因組織地下團體拯救猶太人而被捕、囚於集中營。父親和姐姐因而相繼在獄中受苦離世。她認知出賣他們的叛徒後，恨得全身發痛。然而，聖靈提醒她仇恨的毒性 -- 等如殺人一樣，以及神曾對她極大的饒恕。那天晚上，當她把苦毒交託給主時，她的心靈得著釋放。縱然在獄中，仍能安然入睡。
Corrie ten Boom, incarcerated for hiding Jews during WWI, whose father and sister died a tragic death inside the camp–shook with hatred upon identifying the traitor. However, God revealed to her how toxic hate is - which, as Jesus said, it equates to murder - and reminded her how much she had been forgiven. The night she presented her forgiveness before the Lord, and she was freed within and slept soundly.
一個個感人至深的例子讓我理解到，真正饒恕必須來自聖靈的力量。儘管如此，神不否定我們的悲傷、痛楚與掙扎。祂深深地擁抱著破碎的我們，並且接納我們最真實、脆弱的情感。主耶穌為我們親歷水火，祂徹底明白我們的痛，讓我們可以坦然到他跟前得憐憫和恩惠。
雖然如此，神摧迫我們饒恕因這是也為了我們自己、讓我們從中得釋放。當我們相信神主持公義和伸冤，我們把眼光轉向永恆，現今的痛苦似乎要變得輕省了許多。放開執念，為傷害我們的人禱告；握着神的應許，期待新天新地降臨，說來容易做似乎很難呢。我願接納自己是未完成的作品，雖然不知道前路面對什麼冤屈或困難，但我知道只要基督在旁，我將能伸出原諒的手。
「饒恕是要把囚犯釋放，然後發現原來該囚犯是我們自己。」----- Lewis B. Smedes
2026月曆新鮮出爐~ 有興趣的話歡迎聯繫我或參考以下連結：
These powerful examples show me that forgiveness is Spirit-led. God doesn’t underestimate our emotional turmoil of deep sorrow and resentment. Instead He is merciful toward the authentic, vulnerable side of us: His beloved Son Jesus suffered deeply for our sake, and welcome us into His grace and mercy.
Even so, He calls us to forgive, not to dismiss justice, but to be truly freed from bitterness and hate. As we shift our gaze to the New heavens new Earth, trusting in God’s justice and vengeance, our pain seems lighter. Forgiveness flows when God’s love fills us to the brim, overflowing toward others. I, like all, am a work in progress. I don’t know what will come, but I believe that forgiveness is at hand when the Lord helps.
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
― Lewis B. Smedes
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