Mercy Obtains Mercy

Anneta Pinto-Young 2 Minutes
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy” (Matthew 5:7).

Jesus shared the parable of a servant who owed ten talents to a King who wished to settle his accounts. “And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made” (Matthew 18:25). The servant fell on his knees and begged the King to have mercy on him and give him time to make the payment. The King conceded and agreed to forgive him the debt. After this conversation with the King, the servant met a fellow servant who owed him significantly less. The servant owed him just one hundred denarii. Now one talent is 6,000 denarii so he was forgiven by the King for a lot more.

The fellow servant begged him to give him time to repay. The servant started choking the fellow servant and demanded that he pay and when he could not pay, had him put in prison until he could pay. Other servants saw what this unforgiving servant did and reported him to the master. “Then his master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me” (Matthew 18:32). The master scolded the servant that he should have had mercy on his fellow servant in the same way that he had been shown mercy. The King was so angry that he had the servant thrown in jail until he could pay his debt.

“So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart” (Matthew 18:35). Jesus shared this parable with Peter in response to his question about forgiveness. He told Peter that we need to forgive each other seventy times seven. We forgive because God has forgiven us and has placed all of our sins into the sea of forgetfulness and remembers them no more. God does not hold our past against us, neither does he hold unto what we have done.

Forgiveness is not easy and we have to forgive people who are not even sorry about what they did. We do not forgive for the benefit of that other person, but we forgive to set ourselves free from bitterness. Holding unto bitterness is allowing the person to continue to hurt us over and over again. This is because bitterness and resentment harms us and not the person who we are angry toward.

“and forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us” (Matthew 6:12).

A.P.-Y.

Published by Anneta Pinto-Young

I am a trained Social Worker who currently provides professional leadership on a programme to support Social Work students and Newly Qualified Social Workers entering the Social Work Profession. Born and raised in Jamaica in a Christian family where my father is an ordained Pastor and Deacon who has served for over 50 years in the ministry. My father is also a trained musician and our family can be described as a musical family. I grew up in a small farming community in St. Peter’s, St. Andrew and my parents also have a small farm. I credit my gift of writing to my father who I watched and listened to over the years as he wrote sermons, poems and other recitals in his capacity in ministry. English has always been an easy subject for me and over the years I have developed an increased interest in writing. I am a Trainer, I sing and have a passion for worship, the spoken word and the free flow of the prophetic anointing. I am married to my best friend Andrew Christopher Young who is an advanced Musician and whose music you can find on YouTube and Facebook. I am a trained Coach and Mentor and I love experimenting with food so I love cooking. I enjoy trying cultural dishes from across the world and I view food as an entry into cultures and languages.

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12 thoughts on “Mercy Obtains Mercy”

  1. As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. (Ps 103:12) We are not equipped to forget our brother’s trespass against us…like our Father, but praise God He has given us a spirit of forgiveness💕

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  2. Good morning Anneta🙋‍♀️.
    I’m so excited! Over the past weekend Holy Spirit reminded me about this scripture and it became a prayerpoint.People tend to forget that God forgave us and excused from our debts, but so many times we are carrying debts around.
    Good one! Blessed day 💖

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  3. Great word my sister, this is meat of the word for the mature.
    It is what it is!!!!Not forgiving someone is like you drinking poison to punish someone not knowing that it’s you who will die.
    And its a statement that sufferings of Jesus Christ on the cross were not enough for that person we are holding grudges to be forgiven.

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  5. Forgiveness is spiritual. I believe that Jesus’s parable of forgiveness 70×7, is more that how much we forgive, rather that we forgive.
    If God kept a log book of our sins, we would surely exceed 70×7, then will he stop forgiving us?
    No. God wants us to forgive the way he does, to keep no records, and walk by faith.
    Let’s not be like that servant who could not forgive, because God has put away our debt, we also can learn these things.
    God bless you sister.

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