Forgiven

Let all bitterness and indignation and wrath (passion, rage, bad temper) and resentment (anger, animosity) and quarreling (brawling, clamor, contention) and slander (evil-speaking, abusive or blasphemous language) be banished from you, with all malice (spite, ill will, or baseness of any kind).  And become useful and helpful and kind to one another, tenderhearted (compassionate, understanding, loving-hearted), forgiving one another [readily and freely], as God in Christ forgave you.  Ephesians 4:31-32

My prayer for you today is that you would not ask God how many times you were required to forgive others, but that you would instead forgive others without limits.  That you would let go of the things that eat us up, bitterness, resentment, quarreling, slander and malice and hold tightly instead to the characteristics of Jesus Himself.  That you would be able to grasp the enormous debt that Jesus canceled for you, not because you were good for it, but because He WAS.  That you would live your life as someone who has been released from huge amounts and able to forgive others for the irritation they sometimes cause you.  I pray that you would write off, as God has done for us, the things that you wish others might be held accountable for.  That you would find, for yourself, the freedom that comes only from forgiving others and leaving vengeance to the Lord.  That you would know that God's forgiveness is free but that it's not without consequences and that His forgiveness should freely flow from you.  That you would be a forgiven person who lives a forgiven life.  This is my prayer for you and me.