Faith Minute® is a one minute program heard on dozens of stations across the country. Each weekday your host, Leith Anderson, shares an inspiring and practical message of hope, encouragement and challenge showing why 'living by faith' can be the most stretching, fulfilling and rewarding experience you will ever have.
September 29, 2011
When children are little, they think their parents are perfect – and then they reach adolescence and find out! Teenagers have no trouble seeing the faults in their parents.
There are no perfect parents. There’s not a one of us who can’t remember a time in our childhood when we were offended or hurt by our parents. Sometimes the offences of parents are so unspeakable that the only way their children can survive is by trying to forget them.
As adults, what are we to do when we have suffered as a result of our imperfect parents? The honorable thing to do is to forgive. The Bible tells us to, “Forgive as the Lord forgave you.”
There’s a supernatural power to forgiveness. For when we forgive others, we are more like God than at any other time.
