Tuesday 9 Mar 2021

March 9: Matthew 18:21-22
 
Key Verse: Matthew 18:22
Jesus answered, ‘I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.
 
Devotion:
I find it difficult to really forgive someone when they have done something horrible to me – it doesn’t seem to make sense we should forgive them when they have willingly done something which has hurt us and maybe continues to hurt us... But stop for a while and think of some of the things we have done against Christ; and yet He continue to offer us true forgiveness for those things!
 
When we do something wrong against someone else, we then have to come to them and ask them for forgiveness so we can start to patch things up with them. It is those times when we begin to realise what it is that makes for a true confession! As a child we may have been told to “say sorry” on multiple occasions and we probably said the words without meaning it at the time – but Jesus wants us to mean the words and then say them.
 
When we come to Him and ask for His forgiveness, it should be a full and honest admission of our guilt. He has then promised us He will forgive us instead of us wondering whether what we have done was just a little too much this time!
 
When we begin to understand how difficult it is to ask for forgiveness, we should then begin to realise why some people find it hard to say sorry to us. Jesus made a promise to forgive us, no matter what! If we can at least try to forgive those who do things which hurt us, then just maybe we will think twice before we do something to hurt God!
 
Points to Ponder:
How often do you have to say sorry?
 
Have you tried thinking about what you do before doing it?