I recently watched a talk that included the concept of fore-giveness, which if I understand it correctly, means forgiving others for wrongs that haven't happened yet.
I wonder if that's possible. Can we forgive wrongdoings that have yet to be done? I don't know. But I do know that we can prepare to forgive others for the wrongs that we know that they will eventually do.
We can develop a love and compassion for them that transcends their present and future actions. We can acknowledge that everyone is human and that everyone has made, is making, and will make bad decisions. Everyone, even our loved ones, will do bad things, even to us. We may not be able to preemptively forgive specific future wrongdoings, just was we can't preemptively repent of them, but we can preemptively decide to continue to love them, no matter what they do.
Granted, love does not always equate to forgiveness, and forgiveness certainly doesn't equate to condoning. But God does ask us to love everyone and forgive everyone, perhaps even for wrongs that have yet to be committed.
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