Day 5: What Forgiveness Is Not

The forgiven servant was released from an unimaginable debt. Then he found someone who owed him a hundred denarii — about a hundred days' wages. A real amount, but nothing compared to what he had been forgiven. He grabbed the man by the throat. This is what unforgiveness looks like from where God is standing. You have been forgiven a debt you could never pay, and you are choking someone over something that could be settled. Forgiveness is not saying what happened was okay. It's not pretending it didn't hurt. It is releasing the debt. The prison you are throwing them into is actually building itself around you.