God’s grace is meant to flow through us.
Like a healthy heart receives blood and pumps it throughout the body, the Christian heart receives God’s forgiving love and passes it on to others. Refusing to forgive blocks that flow and reveals a heart indifferent to the mercy it has received.
God continually assures us that Christ has erased our debt. By his grace and power, we can extend that forgiveness to those who have sinned against us.