Thank you, Vino, for this great post!
To forgive then means, to become free. To become free from my role of a victim with all of its selfpity, hatred, paralysis. Not to be governed any longer by my enemy, by that what was in the past but to look to the front with confidence in the Lord.
The Israelites never forgot the time of slavery in Egypt. I guess, it depends what way I remember. Do I remember irreconcilably or do I remember the great deed God has done.
Those Israelites who weren\'t ready to live the life of freed people (which indeed meant struggle) interestingly enough very soon longed back for the slavery in Egypt. And they never got to the Holy Land.
The Exodus of the Israelites and the crossing of the Sea is a image of the baptism. In our baptism God set us free from the evil past, from the slavery. When we confess, our baptismal grace becomes re-established.
We have to learn to live as free people. I guess, this will be a process, maybe a long way. But God can give us the will and the accomplishing.
Jannis
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