The Cycle of Forgiveness
Verse of the day: Forgive us our sins, for we too forgive all who owe us; and do not let us fall into temptation (Luke 11:4).
Who forgives whom first?
When Jesus teaches us to pray for God to forgive us – because we also forgive ourselves – he does not say that the first movement of forgiveness was ours, on the contrary, it happens like this: God forgave us when we believed in Christ (Acts 10:43) Then, out of this broken, joyous, grateful, and hopeful experience of being forgiven, we offer forgiveness to others.
This means that we have been forgiven in a saving way, that is, our forgiveness to others shows that we have faith, that we are united to Christ, and that we are inhabited by the Spirit.
However, we always sin (1 John 1. 8, 10). So do we always turn to God in search of new applications of Christ’s work in our name?New sorry apps. We cannot do this with confidence if we feed an uncompromising spirit (Matthew 18:23-35).
That is why Jesus says that we ask forgiveness because we forgive. It is like saying, “Father, continue to reach me with the mercy bought by Christ, for by these mercies I abandon vengeance and extend to others what you have bestowed upon me”.
May you know God’s forgiveness again today and may grace overflow in your heart to forgive others.
Original: February 2? The cycle of forgiveness, © 2017 Ministério Fiel. All rights reserved. Website: MinisterioFiel. com. br Translation: Camila Rebeca Almeida Review: Vinicius Musselman Narration: Elalio Garofalo Neto.
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