🕊️ Reflect, why did the Lord insist that unforgiveness deprives us of forgiveness? ✨ Not because God's goodness and love are limited by what we do, but because unforgiveness makes us ourselves incapable of tasting the forgiveness of God the Father. For if we do not forgive, our Heavenly Father will not forgive us, not out of harshness, but because we have lost the grace, i.e., the grace of forgiveness which is given to us so that we may grow in the knowledge of God the Father's forgiveness. How can we bury this "talent," then expect to receive something after burying it? And when we do not forgive others, our love remains bound and does not grow; it may even die under the weight and burden of enmity, and thus we fail to taste the love of God the Father. #Forgiveness #Unforgiveness #Grace #Mercy #Love #SpiritualGrowth