Innumerable Forgivenesses

Jesus has warned against sinning by our actions. Now he is warning his followers against causing others to sin. He says that this is such a serious offense that those who commit it, would have been better off, if before they had done so, they suffered a violent death. They would be better off if they had a Lithos Mulikos, that is the giant upper mill stone turned by a donkey or a mule that went round and round and crushed the grain tied around their necks and throne into the sea. Thus assuring their certain death.

But because it is impossible to live in a world without offenses, without sins, it is most necessary that Christians who live the world have the right attitude not only towards their own sin but those of others. While we should have a healthy abhorence towards our own sins, or causing others to sin, the Christian attitude towards the sins of our brothers against us should be full of the same kind of forgiveness and mercy that God has exercised towards us. We should be eager and willing to forgive, and that again and again.

"Seven times a day that you have to forgive your brother are but a small number compared with the innumerable forgivenesses granted to you by our ever-gracious God." - Spurgeon