Many of us have misconceptions about why God forgives us, who God forgives, what it means to be forgiven, and how we are to go about being forgiven and forgiving ourselves and others. For the right perspective on forgiveness, we must go to God’s Word and stay there. The Bible is God’s foremost communication to us on this subject. It is the reference to which we must return continually to compare what is happening in us and to us with what should be happening in us and what can happen to us. Our perspective