When We Know We’re Forgiven
We Learn to Forgive
The journey to becoming forgiving begins with understanding how deeply we ourselves need forgiveness. When we grasp the weight of mercy we’ve received, something shifts in our hearts—we stop intentionally making life miserable for others and begin extending the same grace that’s been shown to us.
From the Qur’an:
“Do you not desire that God should forgive you your sins, seeing that God is much-forgiving, a dispenser of grace?”
From the Old Testament:
“Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy. You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.”
From the New Testament:
“Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?'”
All three scriptures point to a powerful truth: the forgiveness we’ve received should transform how we treat others. When we truly understand the depth of mercy shown to us—whether it’s God casting our sins into the ocean depths, forgiving debts we could never repay, or asking us to reflect on whether we desire His forgiveness—we cannot help but become more merciful ourselves. The heart that knows it’s been forgiven learns to forgive.