Jesus Says You Should Forgive because God has Forgiven You
“Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.“ (Matt 6:12 KJV)
Seventy times seven
There never can be an end to your forgiving because there never can be an end to your need of God’s forgiveness. Be ungracious to someone…and the next minute you will find yourself having to say, “Pardon me,” to someone else, and feeling small. Watch the way it goes. Much more, refuse to forgive someone; very soon you will find yourself needing God’s forgiveness and unable to get it.
Even as I had pity on you
How great His mercy to us. We cannot compute our debt. If we lived more in the mood of thankfulness, we should be so conscious of our canceled ten-thousand-talent debt that we should delight in forgetting the hundred pence our neighbor owes us. When our salvation becomes commonplace to us, our hearts will become hard.
From our hearts
Every hurt that comes is an opportunity to be like Christ. But the opportunity comes disguised; all we see, for the pain, is the injustice of it. Don’t use part of the Atonement only. Let Jesus carry your hurts as well as your sins. [Study Matt 18:21-35]
