![]() So, the reality here is that we increase the stress and anxiety within ourselves while the other person may not be experiencing it at all. Oddly enough, the people we treat this way may not even know that what they did has caused offense. This is when we have become not just the person owed something, but also the debt-collector. We start to make decisions about our interactions with that person based on this debt and we treat them with different levels of hostile behavior depending upon the severity of the infraction. When someone does something that hurts me (mentally, physically, socially, or spiritually) I consider that in the form of a debt, but now I am charging interest. ![]() Someone does something for me so I “owe” them one and vice-versa. In our relationships with each other, we often see them in terms of debt transactions. Once we do find a way to pay off the debt of the loan, it is considered forgiven. These are people who use not so nice tactics to collect what is owed. Somewhere along the way, the debt can be referred to a debt collector. If we miss a payment, further debt is incurred and it becomes increasingly difficult to pay off the original amount. When we take out a loan, the way it is forgiven is when we pay the money we borrowed back along with some extra money as interest. ![]() Luke 17:3-4 – “Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”Įphesians 4:32 – “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.”Ĭolossians 3:12-13 – “Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.”Ĭonsider forgiveness through the idea of debt. Mark 11:25 – “And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.” ![]() So do not fear I will provide for you and your little ones.’ Thus, he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.” (Note: Joseph is forgiving his brothers that had sold him into slavery in Egypt where he had suffered for quite a few years.) Genesis 50:19-21 – “But Joseph said to them, ‘Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. Proverbs 17:9 – “Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.” ![]()
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