Saint Athanasius Lutheran Church

Three little words. You know them. Wives long to hear them from their husbands, and husbands from their wives. No, not I love you! But I forgive you. So I don't know about you, but if someone sins against me and hurts me pretty bad and I forgive them, I'm feeling pretty good about myself. And yet we heard these words from Jesus today: So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.' And so when you forgive, when you speak those three little words, you're not earning anything -- you are simply giving what you have received. You are clinging to Jesus by faith, and you are giving Jesus to others.