Day 2: The Question Only a Grown-Up Asks
Reading: Matthew 18:21-22
Devotional: Peter's question reveals the way most of us quietly approach forgiveness. We want a limit. We want a number we can reach so that, finally, our obligation is finished and our grievance is justified. Jesus answers not with a higher number but with the abolition of counting altogether. Forgiveness in the kingdom of God is not a transaction with a ceiling -- it is a posture, a way of living. Consider the grudge you have been quietly maintaining. Ask God today to replace the part of you that is counting with the part of you that is simply willing.
Reading: Matthew 18:21-22
Devotional: Peter's question reveals the way most of us quietly approach forgiveness. We want a limit. We want a number we can reach so that, finally, our obligation is finished and our grievance is justified. Jesus answers not with a higher number but with the abolition of counting altogether. Forgiveness in the kingdom of God is not a transaction with a ceiling -- it is a posture, a way of living. Consider the grudge you have been quietly maintaining. Ask God today to replace the part of you that is counting with the part of you that is simply willing.
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