Matthew 18
TORTURE, ANYONE?

Here is a thought that I didn’t think as I woke up this morning: I didn’t think it would be a great day to be tortured, pulled limb from limb, roasted over a slow fire, dragged behind wild horses or to have my fingernails pulled out one by one. Actually, as I woke, I was hoping for a much better day than that!

In the parable of the unmerciful servant, unforgiveness led to a fellow servant being thrown into prison, and then to the unmerciful servant himself being handed “over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.” (Matthew 18 v 34). Who knows what the torture was like – but we do know that it would not have been pleasant.

It is then that Jesus gives us a warning: “This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.” (v 35).

We don’t plan on being tortured, but do we forgive? Let’s remove the possibility of being tortured by God by forgiving each other from the heart.

May the love and forgiveness shown to us, flow from us toward others this week.

With love in our Lord
Robert
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