Matthew 18: 21-22
21 Then Peter came to him and asked, “Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times?”
22 “No, not seven times,” Jesus replied, “but seventy times seven!
This seems to be one of the questions to plague the mind of people throughout the centuries. How many times must I forgive someone else? It is so hard to forgive others especially, if they are doing the exact same thing every time. I have a daughter who is stubborn at times. In fact sometimes she does things to my wife that are just outright mean. She can be a loving child but chooses many times to be hateful to spite both her mother and I. What I have found out through loving her is that I must forgive what she has done. No matter what she has done, no matter how wrong she was, I must forgive her. Now if I look around me I see people that I interact with at work who I find at times hard to forgive. They do something that really irks me and I just don’t want to let it go. Today’s verse doesn’t actually mean 490 times but it means continual forgiveness. What God wants me to do is to actually forgive them as He has forgiven me. He has forgiven me for everything that I have done. It is the least that I can do to forgive others what they have done against me.
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