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If we accept God’s definition, what we do is something other than forgiveness or it is incomplete as best I can determine.

Matthew 6:14–15
14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Now i wonder how i will explain to God that i did not forgive that man because i did not know if he had repented or not?

Mat 6:12 and forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us.

These verses and others like it have troubled me. They don’t seem right as the standard when our eyes read it go to “us” and “you”. A non pondering read of these verses leads to us. But it shouldn’t take much thinking to know that God NEVER sets his standard on what we do.

SO, what is the deeper truth? Because God never lies. The standard is THERE IS FORGIVNESS OF SIN IF THERE IS REPENTANCE. This is Gods standard and should bring us to our knees in our relationship with him.

There is nothing better than having this COMPLETENESS OF FORGIVENESS with God. Unfortunately I am not there too often and it strains my relationship with God.

So we are left with

1) what we do is not forgiveness, it is something else. It saying the situation is not worth my time. It may be appropriate, shaking the dust from my feet and turning it over to God.

2) It is recognizing the true definition of forgiveness and knowing it is incomplete. I would call this grieving.

3) Get on our knees in our relationship with God.

Again thank you for the sword sharpening. I have much to ponder.....................