“And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” (Matthew 6:12)
Years ago I heard an Anglican Canon from Australia coin a new word when he said, “The greatest obstacle to inner healing is unforgiveness. We may be experiencing unforgiveness because we lack the assurance of God’s forgiveness, or the forgiveness of people against whom we have sinned. The source of our unforgiveness may also be that we will not forgive people who have sinned against us.”
Canon Glennon then gave many examples of people who had been brutally abused and told how their rage and hunger for revenge had retarded their own inner healing. Consider the perfect wisdom of our Lord Who prescribed that we should pray, as some translations have it, “Forgive us our sins as we have already forgiven those who sin against us.”
Forgiveness declares a fifth eternal value: Inner healing is a greater value than physical healing.
When we confess our sins we need to forget what God forgets and remember what God remembers. God forgives and God forgets our sins. We have God’s Word for that. In the New Testament we are promised that, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). In the Old Testament, God clearly tells us, “Their sins I will remember no more” (Jeremiah 31:34). However, God remembers that we are sinners. We forget we are sinners. (That is at least one reason why we fall into sin again and again.)
When we confess our sins but keep remembering them after God has forgiven us, our guilt baggage shows that our faith is flawed after God has long forgotten our sins.
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Dad,
You have always been a forgiver and have demonstrated what that looks like in real life. I remember well the placks on the walls that said , “God loves you, ANYWAY!” and “I love you ANYWAY!” How can we refuse to forgive others when our Savior has forgiven us a debt we could never repay in a zillion years!! Love, BooBoo
Atheist what other God can forgive you for your sins ?Here’s a more irtpmoant question: Will you be able to forgive all the people who tried to get you to believe gods are real once you come to see all gods are myth? You say you don’t believe in gods, but if you believe in one god then you believe in all gods. Why do you think the First Commandment is: Thou shalt not have no other gods before me?