Forgiven

“Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven, for she loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.” Luke 7:47

Paul Chappell, in his book “Abiding in Christ”, tells the following story: “In the old western days, a man was walking down the road carrying a bag of grain on his shoulder. Another man was riding along the road in a buckboard pulled by a horse. He came up beside the man carrying the grain and said, ‘Jump up here on the buckboard with me. It’s too hot to be walking today.
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The man said, ‘Thank you,’ and got up onto the seat with his grain still on his shoulder.

After a while, the driver said, ‘Why don’t you put that grain down and relax?’ The passenger said, ‘Oh, no. It’s enough that you would allow me to ride—I would never ask you to carry my load, too!’

This is what many Christians do.
They say, ‘Lord, I know You can save me, forgive my sins, and give me a home in Heaven, but I wouldn’t ask You to carry my load too!’ Friend, He said, ‘I want to abide with you. I want to carry your load and be your life.’”

God’s love is forgiveness and the loosening of any burden of sin.

Forgive those who have wronged you, just as Christ as forgiven you.

“We have a free, full, final, forever forgiveness in the atoning work of Christ.” – J. Sidlow Baxter

“For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.” – Matthew 6:14-15