“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
Excerpt, Gospel Reading, Tuesday 11th March 2025 – MATTHEW 6:7-15.
So, the reasoning in today’s teaching is just the way it is. It is tit-for-tat.
If we hold grudges against someone who did us some wrong and we refuse to forgive and let go, do we think we will get respite from God?
Today’s teaching says, God, too, will also not forgive us the sins we have committed against Him. Tit-for-tat!
Come to think of it, remaining unforgiving and holding a grudge against one who wronged us in itself, is it not a sin?
Similarly, now that we are in the season of Lent, if we embrace the Lenten practice of skipping some meals and observing abstinence, yet we remain unforgiving to those who wronged us and maintain a harsh disposition towards then, we will certainly not gain any Lenten indulgence. We go jus dey do keto make we slim.
God says in today’s teaching that, He too, will be far away from us.
Nevertheless, even if we over feed from eating all our daily meals and indulge in all that pleasure us, but we are forgiving of all who wronged us and choose to be loving rather than hostile, God in turn will also act likewise towards us.
That,☝️ my dear friend, is the import of today’s teaching and impart of Lent. Love above everything.
Have a fantastic day folks.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo
11th March 2025.