Do you carry grudges? Do you dwell on past hurts? The times someone metaphorically stabbed you in the back? When someone promised and didn’t fulfill or broke a contract?
We’ve heard forgive and forget. But can we really forget? More importantly, do we continually think of them?
John Climacus says, “Remembrance of wrongs comes as the final point of anger. It is a keeper of sins. It hates a just way of life. It is the ruin of virtues, the poison of the soul, a worm in the mind.”
Whom do you know with a ruined life because of the poison in the mind that just cannot get over the wrong done? I hope that isn’t you–or your spouse.
John also says, “The man who has put a stop to anger has also wiped out remembrance of wrongs, since offspring can come only from a living parent.”
Think on that sentence. There is deep meaning.
Such is the ninth step. Let him who has taken it have the courage henceforth to ask Jesus the Savior to free him from his sins.
Faith Venture 
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