982A: Free at Last!
We need to learn to pray as Jesus prayed and forgive as He forgave. We have been loosed from the prison house of sin by a gracious God. We have been forgiven. We can make a mockery of that forgiveness by refusing to forgive others, and thus willingly enter again into bondage, or we can walk into the sunlight of a new life. Because of the great forgiveness we have received, we are to pour that forgiveness liberally into the lives of all who might offend us.