Taking A Step Towards Growth x Sarah Jakes Roberts & Dr. Anita

During a rapid-fire Q&A, SJR asked Dr. Anita to share her take on forgiveness as reflected in the life of Jesus. Check out her powerful response! ___________________________________ Watch the FULL “Chasing Glimmers” episode featuring Dr. Anita Phillips on the Woman Evolve TV App. For audio-only, head over to iHeartRadio, Apple, Spotify, or Google Podcasts.

and often we are collateral damage for

people’s

issues but it’s such it’s so rare that

people are waking up in the morning like

I’m going to figure out a way to harm

Sarah today Anita today you know a lot

of times people are just rolling through

in their unhealed spaces and we are

catching

Strays and that’s real yeah I’m always

balancing how I conceptualize

forgiveness of someone in a specific

instance with the things that I’ve been

forgiven for the balls that I’ve dropped

the times that I was the villain in

someone else’s story it really helps me

to not forgive from some condescending

kind of arrogant place oh you know what

I release them I know I forgive them

because they’re in their unhealed space

and they know not what they do they

don’t really see who I am you know what

I mean you can start getting whenever we

look at the story of Jesus I think we

should always be careful to put

ourselves in his place as the hero in

the story we all have a tendency to read

ourselves into the hero of the story but

what when have I as Paul said crucified

him aresh in my heart with my behavior

when has Jesus when have I been Peter in

one way or another and Jesus has wrapped

his arms back around me and so because

forgiveness is not like one of my

natural personality traits leaning in

that direction over the years I’ve

developed methods to make sure that I’m

in the posture of forgiveness foress and

try to stay there and one of the ways I

do that is reflecting on my shortcomings

my failures the number of times that

I’ve needed to repent to the Lord for

something um and not make myself better

than this person who is now failing God

yeah and I’m collateral damage