Episode 292 - Seventy Times Seven

How important is forgiveness in the Christian life? Christ tells us not with answers but with the shape of a story — a man forgiven much, who then refuses mercy to another. We are left to reckon with the “as” of the Lord’s Prayer: forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. What we give, we receive. What we withhold, binds us.

This is not a lesson in sentiment, but a call to conversion — from anger to intercession, from resentment to blessing. Even as we wrestle with pain and memory, we are given power: not merely to refrain from hate, but to seek our brother’s good. Forgiveness is not a boundary; it is the ground on which we stand if we wish to be forgiven ourselves.

The ember of anger may burn unseen, but left unchecked, it razes the soul. Christ does not flinch from saying so. And still — even still — He offers us the path back.