{"id":38751,"date":"2026-01-01T22:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38751"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:57:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:57:45","slug":"260102-forgive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260102-forgive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Call to Forgive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38754 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0102_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0102_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0102_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you. Is it still hard to consider the thought of forgiving the one who hurt you?<\/p>\n<p>If so, go one more time to the room. Watch Jesus as he goes from disciple to disciple. Can you see him? Can you hear the water splash? Can you hear him shuffle on the floor to the next person? Keep that image. John 13:12 says, \u201cWhen he had finished washing their feet\u2026\u201d Please note: he finished washing their feet. That means he left no one out. Why is that important? Because that means he washed the feet of Judas. Jesus washed the feet of his betrayer.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say it was easy for Jesus. That\u2019s not to say it\u2019s easy for you. That\u00a0<strong><em>is<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0to say God will never call you to do what he hasn\u2019t already done.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38753\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-unnamed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=856eeedcac&amp;e=0716428f80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dbed511e434184985961d50fcb%26id%3D856eeedcac%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1767228079577000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2njc2HEdxp1ktIyhl0Wt0b\"><em>A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you. Is it still hard to consider the thought of forgiving the one who hurt you?<\/p>\n<p>If so, go one more time to the room. Watch Jesus as he goes from disciple to disciple. Can you see him? Can you hear the water splash? Can you hear him shuffle on the floor to the next person? Keep that image. John 13:12 says, \u201cWhen he had finished washing their feet\u2026\u201d Please note: he finished washing their feet. That means he left no one out. Why is that important? Because that means he washed the feet of Judas. Jesus washed the feet of his betrayer.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say it was easy for Jesus. That\u2019s not to say it\u2019s easy for you. That\u00a0is\u00a0to say God will never call you to do what he hasn\u2019t already done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38755,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38751\/revisions\/38755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}