Can you think of a time when it was hard to ask for forgiveness, or hard to forgive someone? Our culture has a forgiveness problem, and my guess is that all of us struggle with forgiveness at times. We become super sensitive to all the ways others have hurt us and insensitive to the ways we hurt others. Even though the Bible says that Jesus has, “forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us…nailing it to the cross,” we find it easier to cancel someone than to cancel their debt against us and do the long work of forgiveness. Jesus was often asked by his disciples about forgiveness. No one really asked, “Should I forgive someone?” But the question was, “What should be the LIMIT of my forgiveness?” Surely mercy has boundaries; the river of grace must have banks. And surely forgiveness should have its limit before someone doesn’t deserve to be forgiven anymore. Join us as we continue looking at the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6.
