Forgive us as we have forgiven

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Let us feel a certainty now that we are perfectly reconciled with God, and that we are one with you, and speak with you as a man speaks with his friend."

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June 19, 2024

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

We are pardoned; we are clean; we are washed with the blood of Christ—as many as have believed in his name—there is no sin remaining on us. But, as children, we come under another discipline, and members of a family that offend our Father. Our Father, “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.” We do very freely and very heartily and very truly forgive anybody who may have aggrieved us. Do so with your children, and let us feel a certainty now that we are perfectly reconciled with God, and that we are one with you, and speak with you as a man speaks with his friend.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.” (Matthew 6:12)

This pardon we can only obtain as we freely pass over the offenses of others against ourselves: “as we forgive our debtors.” This is a reasonable, no, a blessed requirement, which it is a delight to fulfill. It would not be safe for God to forgive a man who will not forgive others.

Lord, I most heartily forgive all who may have done me wrong, I am lenient with those who are indebted to me; and now, with a hopeful heart, I pray that you would forgive me, as surely as I now forgive all who are in any sense my debtors.

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