What Forgiveness is

I was driving this morning, from dropping my son off to his daycare. My radio was tuned into the Yolanda Adams morning show. They played TD Jake's inspirational thought for the day and he was speaking on forgiveness. This truly spoke to my spirit this morning. In the Lord's Prayer (Matt. 6:9) we say "Forgive us our trespasses (sins/debts) as we forgive those that trespass (debtors, sin) against us".... with listening to TD Jakes, I realized I did not understand the full depth to that script. I now realize, that when we ask God to forgive us, what we want is for him to clean us of all we've done wrong (cancel our debt) cause we understand that is exactly what he does, and it is unconditional forgiveness. He asks that we sin not again, but instead live Holy with the guidance of His Spirit, but if we fail to do this, he doesn't place back on us the sin he already forgave us for. We are free from sins that were forgiven (canceled debt).

So God says, forgive so you can be forgiven. If you do not forgive, the Father will not forgive you. So we need to understand that forgiving someone means canceling their debt for the wrong they have done to us. Setting them free from it. We can't say I forgive you today and then tomorrow chastise them for what they did.

Hallelujah, thank God for the revelation. I don't know about you, but I know I don't want God to come back later and place back on me all my sins.