Day 5: the Unthankful Man

So far this week, we've been talking about God forgiving us. In this lesson, we are going to talk about what we need to do.

Jesus told his disciples a story of a king and his servants. One of the servants owed the king millions of dollars, a debt the servant could never repay. The king ordered the servants' wife, children, and all his possessions be sold in order to pay the debt. The servant pleaded for the king to be patient with him until he could pay back what he owed. The king took pity on the servant, cancelled his debt, and let him go.

When the servant left, he found a fellow servant who owed him a few dollars. The servant grabbed him and demanded the man pay him the few dollars owed. The man begged him to be patient with him and promised to pay him back, but the servant refused to listen. Instead he had the man thrown in prison.

Some of the other servants saw this, and told the king what had happened. The king called the servant in. "Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had mercy on you?", he asked. In anger, he turned the wicked servant over to the jailers to be tortured until he paid back all he owed.

Jesus said to his disciples, "This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart." Sometimes this is hard to do. Maybe someone has done something so terrible to you that there seems no way you could ever forgive them. Maybe you can't forgive them, under your own strength. Maybe you'll have to ask God for help. If you refuse to forgive and live with anger in your heart, you will be the one to suffer.

"But if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you." Matthew 6:14


Daily Prayer

"Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen"

"Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you and you will honour Me." Psalms 50:15


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