Today, I am reading and commenting on  Matthew 18-20.

As I first read through today’s passage I was going to write about what Jesus says about being like a child in order to be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.  But as I went back through the passage I was struck by the fact that Matthew transitioned from Jesus talking about how we should confront our fellow Believers when they sin to talking about forgiving those who have sinned against us.  I am not sure that I have ever heard someone connect the two to each other.  When you consider that in many manuscripts verse fifteen in chapter eighteen reads, “If your fellow believer sins against you,…” the fact that Matthew immediately follows Jesus’ teachings about confronting them with His teaching about unlimited forgiveness gives Jesus’ instructions much greater depth.  When we go to the one who we believe to have sinned against us we need to make sure that we are not being the servant who is the prime subject in the parable Jesus told to illustrate how we should forgive (or to be more precise, how we should not not forgive).

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.