Our Lord commands us to pray that he forgives us our debts as we forgive our debtors. This is a strange thing to command that we are actually to pray that God would forgive our debts as we forgive our debtors. Why does the Lord want us to first and foremost ask him for forgiveness? Hasn’t Christ already forgiven us? Why would we then continually need to ask for this forgiveness? What assurance do we have that the Lord really does forgive us our debts?