Romans 15.16 It is because of Jesus Christ that I am in the people business. I occupy this priestly office representing the goodness of God to 1the masses of mankind persuading them to see how presentable and approved they are to God in the Holy Spirit. (The word 1ethnos, means the masses of non-Jewish people, gentiles)
How do you show the goodness of God to a person that you have allowed to be hurt by.?
What is going on inside of you when this happens?
I think the first thing that you have to recognize is that you stopped seeing that person as a child of God. You stop seeing that person the way God sees them. you stop seeing them as an actual wounded person. All you see is the pain and the hurt that this person caused you. There may be a part of you that wants vengeance. How do you love somebody well that you want to hurt back?
Proverbs 19:11 (ESV) 11 Good sense makes one slow to anger,
and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
James 1:19 (AMP) 19 Understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Let everyone be quick to hear [be a careful, thoughtful listener], slow to speak [a speaker of carefully chosen words and], slow to anger [patient, reflective, forgiving];
Matthew 6.6 