Jesus. Matthew 6:12. Hi, it’s Nathan, and this is Day 15 of 30 Days of Prayer. Forgive. Jesus’ lesson on prayer has moved us from aligning our hearts with the wonder and goodness of our heavenly Daddy. Moved our hearts to seek both the ultimate restoration of all things—and the healing of our world in every possible way, now. It has revealed God’s interest in our daily needs and reminded us of our dependence on his provident hand. Now Jesus calls us to a deeper, greater healing. It is more than bread we need—it is the mending of fractured relationships, after all, this is fundamental to all that God wishes to accomplish in human hearts. More, Jesus ties our own experience of forgiveness and our forgiveness of others together. As he later emphasizes, we experience forgiveness to the level that we extend it to others—and there’s a direct correlation.
