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By Jeremy D. Joy “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses” (Matthew 6:14-15).
Have you ever imagined a scene where you are a judge in a courtroom and there is a line of repentant and mournful people who have wronged you in the past kneeling before you and begging for forgiveness? There is one problem: it means that we are waiting for a debt to be paid and we have not forgiven the offense. We may have received an apology from the person, but the heart continues to harbor bitterness. The action was based upon a technicality and not real mercy. Forgiveness involves releasing someone who was imprisoned for a crime, but withholding forgiveness places us in the same dark and damp cell block. To be free, we must be willing to forgive from the heart!
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