32“Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’ 34In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.
35“This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.” (Matthew 18:32-35)
Thoughts: God cancels our debt. So we should cancel the debt others owe us. We are called into our faith to be a forgiving people. It is an affront to God when we do not forgive others, for it devalues His forgiveness of us. When we know what a debt has been forgiven us, we tend to be quick to forgive others.
Prayer: Lord, help me to forgive others out of the forgiveness you have shown me.
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