Matthew 6:14 (NIV) For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
For 100 days in 1994 Rwanda was a killing field. Saveri Nemeye was one of the aggressors. With a machete he brutally killed Rosaria Bankundiye's husband and their four children. Released from prison in 2004, Saveri went to Rosaria and begged for forgiveness. Rosaria considered his request and then granted it. "How can I refuse to forgive when I'm a forgiven sinner, too?" she asks. Other Christians in Rwanda "describe praying extensively before choosing to grant forgiveness, and speak of the example of Jesus forgiving his killers as he hung on the cross: 'Father, forgive them, for they know now what they do.'"
—USA Today, February 15, 2010, p. 7a. Jim L. Wilson, Fresh Illustrations – Fresh Illustrations: Forgiveness & Reconciliation, (Austin, Texas: WORDsearch, 2014), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, 45.
