Thread by @ItsMikeLuso

The reason why people can’t understand Botham Jeans younger brother, Brandt, choosing to forgive Amber Guyger is because they have no sense of their own sinful nature.

They don’t know what it’s like to be forgiven of their own trespasses on grace alone.
#Forgiveness

People tend to view themselves as good people by default. This makes it easier to condemn others for their wrongdoings while ignoring their own.

Christianity teaches that you are sick and in need of a physician and that your only hope of getting better is in Christ alone.

Brandt understood this. He recognized that he is no less a sinner than the murderer of his older brother. They are in the same boat, so even though he had a right to condemn her, he didn’t.

Just like Jesus told the crowd of the adulterous woman, “He without sin cast the first stone,” and so Brandt followed Christ in his teachings.

The only solace for everyone in the face of that tragedy was forgiveness. It’s the only way to truly heal from such a thing.

It is weakness that prevents one to forgive. Some will say they are all out of forgiveness, however that was a given from the start.