{"id":11525,"date":"2022-08-30T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/?p=11525"},"modified":"2022-08-30T11:53:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T18:53:09","slug":"six-traits-of-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/daily-devotions\/six-traits-of-forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Traits of Forgiveness","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
Genesis 33:4 \u2013 But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.<\/em><\/p>\n As we\u2019ve read through Genesis, we\u2019ve seen a lot of fighting and strife, especially among family members, but here in Genesis 33 we finally see some hope in a beautiful picture of forgiveness, foreshadowing how Jacob\u2019s son Joseph would later forgive his own brothers in one of the great forgiveness stories of the Bible.<\/p>\n Jacob had previously run away from home, in fear of his life because of his brother Esau\u2019s rage. They had warred their entire life, since their mother\u2019s womb, and Jacob hadn\u2019t seen his brother in 20 years, assuming he would still be incredibly angry with him. Esau, however, meets him, shows him kindness and forgiveness, and embraces him.<\/p>\n From this story, we learn six things about forgiveness:<\/p>\n If you want to learn more about forgiveness, I would encourage you to read R.T. Kendall\u2019s Total Forgiveness<\/em> or watch the sermon from his visit to Trinity Church in summer 2021 by the same title by clicking here: https:\/\/realfaith.com\/sermons\/total-forgiveness-r-t-kendall\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n Who do you need to forgive or are praying for reconciliation with?<\/em><\/p>\n To help you study the book of Genesis with us, check out the third free e-book study guide here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n To get daily devos texted to you Monday-Friday, text DEVOTIONS to 99383. Click here to find the sermon series<\/a> that accompanies this devotional series.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Genesis 33:4 \u2013 But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept. As we\u2019ve read through Genesis, we\u2019ve seen a lot of fighting and strife, especially among family members, but here in Genesis 33 we finally see some hope in a beautiful picture of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":6,"featured_media":9485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[349],"tags":[],"ministries":[],"topics":[225],"series":[375],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11526,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11525\/revisions\/11526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11525"},{"taxonomy":"ministries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ministries?post=11525"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=11525"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=11525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n