Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors
Perhaps today, someone will cause me thousands of pounds worth of heart-ache. Perhaps this month, someone will cost me tens of thousands worth of emotional trauma. Perhaps this year, someone will cost me a million pounds worth of hurt. If I just look at that debt it will overwhelm me, I will throttle them and demand pay-back. But Jesus teaches me to return daily to the cross and see there my debts paid off in full. And, as He’ll say later in Matthew, “freely ye have received, freely give.” (Matthew 10:8)
This life of overflowing grace does not come easy to us grudge-keepers. But that’s why Jesus tells us to pray it in to our hearts every single day: “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.”
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