June 24th: Genesis 33
Genesis 33
Jacob has feared this moment for years. How would Esau treat him? Would he try to kill him? Would he still be enraged?
But Esau didn't try to kill him or act in anger, instead he ran to meet his brother, hugged him, and wept. After all of the years apart Esau had chosen to forgive rather than hold on to the anger. Because of the forgiveness, the two brothers were reconciled and for the first time in their lives the had a genuinely good relationship with each other.
It can be hard to forgive, but knowing that we've been forgiven much more by God than we could ever forgive another person helps us to forgive.
Jacob has feared this moment for years. How would Esau treat him? Would he try to kill him? Would he still be enraged?
But Esau didn't try to kill him or act in anger, instead he ran to meet his brother, hugged him, and wept. After all of the years apart Esau had chosen to forgive rather than hold on to the anger. Because of the forgiveness, the two brothers were reconciled and for the first time in their lives the had a genuinely good relationship with each other.
It can be hard to forgive, but knowing that we've been forgiven much more by God than we could ever forgive another person helps us to forgive.
And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
What does this mean? We pray in this petition that our Father in heaven would not look at our sins, or deny our prayer because of them. We are neither worthy of the things for which we pray, nor have we deserved them, but we ask that He would give them all to us by grace, for we daily sin much and surely deserve nothing but punishment. So we too will sincerely forgive and gladly do good to those who sin against us.
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