Our Daily Forgiveness for Sins, Part 1 (TMF:1261)

Monday, November 18, 2019
Peace to Live By: Our Daily Forgiveness for Sins, Part 1 (TMF:1261) - Daniel Litton
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       Continuing in the Lord’s prayer, we read: “Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.” It’s unfortunate, but definitely true that we all fail in our daily lives, and we do find that we have sin regularly that we need to confess to God and ask forgiveness for. It’s interesting to consider how our Lord couples this area of forgiveness with God with giving us our daily bread. Notice how the word ‘daily’ is included here. So, we are to ‘daily’ ask for God’s forgiveness of sin—our debts against him—as we all will sin daily. Some of this sin is just one time occurrences of a certain sin, and some of the forgiveness we need involves ongoing battles we have in our lives, in our minds, as pertain to certain areas. It may be that one day we slip up and tell a lie, but lying may not be a usual problem for us. So, we have to ask God for forgiveness for the lie we told another person. Or, it could be that we have found that we have had a particularly bad day in our combat with lustful thoughts.