What's Up With True North

Tonight John's sermon was from the parable of the unforgiving servant. I've always loved this particular parable - it makes sense to me and it fits so wonderfully with my sense of justice. I always like it when the wronged are validated and when those who cause the wrong are punished. But that wasn't the point of John's sermon. John's sermon was that we are all of us indebted, we are all of us in debt and yet all our debts are  forgiven.

We have all wronged somebody, somewhere and if not here on earth then in heaven because we have all wronged God through our very natural state of sin. That's right, we are ALL of us sinners ... we have ALL of us wronged God. And yet (and here comes the greatness of God) ... we are ALL of us forgiven; God has chosen to forgive us so that he will remain in relationship with us. God has acquitted each and every one of us by His grace through Christ Jesus.

How many of us, when wronged by another, are so willing to forgive?