Forgive, Lest Satan Should Get an Advantage


To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also…… Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.(2Cor 2:10-11)


Forgiveness not only ensures that the Father forgive us (Matt 6:14), but it protects us from the accuser of the brethren. The worst thing that anyone can experience is to be taken advantage of. This is a feeling of being stripped naked, laid bare and void of any protection. It is an intrusion into the deepest part of our being and leaves us with an emotional state of being violated and ashamed.


……how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? ….(Mat 18:21)


The ultimate demonstration of forgiveness is to love our enemies, bless them, do good to them, and pray for their best (Matt 5:44). The cross is the truest demonstration of forgiveness (Luke 23:34). We should not reckon why we cannot forgive, but give deepest consideration why we should. We can pen a whole shopping list of reasons not to forgive. But why should the devil take advantage of us? Never underestimate the damage he can do and he is constantly looking for victims (1 Pet 5:8). What a powerful weapon of spiritual warfare we can garner, forgive!