We must forgive, for we ourselves have been forgiven a debt beyond reckoning. The wrongs we bear against one another, though grievous, are but small coins beside the vast debt of sin that stood against us, a debt whose end was death and separation from God. Yet Christ, in His mercy, took that burden upon Himself and opened the way of life to us. Therefore let us not cling to the lesser debts owed by our brothers, but release them as we have been released, remembering always the mercy that first sought us when we had no strength to save ourselves.