Matthew 6:14 "For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Matthew 18:35 "My heavenly Father will also do the same to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart."
A great deal of our anxiety to make excuses comes from not really believing in it, from thinking that God will not take us to Himself again unless He is satisfied that some sort of case can be made out in our favor.
But that is not forgiveness at all.
Real forgiveness means looking steadily at the sin,
the sin that is left over
without any excuse,
after all allowances have been made,
and
seeing it in all its horror, dirt, meanness and malice,
and nevertheless
being wholly reconciled to the man who has done it."
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