Freedom in forgiveness

When Leonardo da Ninci was painting The Last Supper, he had a quarrel with a fellow painter and was so outraged that he decided to depict the fellow painter’s face as that of Judas! Da Vinci then hit a mental block when pondering how he should render the face of Christ. He couldn’t bring himself to paint it. He decided that this "painting block" was caused by depicting Judas’ face as the face of his enemy. He decided to make amends with his painter friend and repainted the face of Judas and shortly after went on to paint the face of Christ. As Christians we need to realise that unforgiveness will form a block in our relationship with Christ and that as set out in Matthew 6:12 we must forgive those who have sinned against us. There is freedom in forgiveness.