24th Sunday – Ez 33:7-9 Sirach 27:30-28:9; Romans 14:7-9; Matthew 18:21-35
“My way” or God’s way? We all like doing things our way – at our pace, with our reactions, our timing, our sense of justice. There’s a certain comfort in it, isn’t there? But today’s readings gently ask a hard question: when I insist on “my way”, is it really God’s way?
We belong to the Lord. Our life is in His hands, our heart is His creation. He sees the whole battlefield inside us: not only our good desires and our longing to love, but also our anger, our sense of being wronged, our resentment, our jealousy of another’s blessings.
And it isn’t simple. Sometimes our resistance to forgive is just plain selfishness – but not always. Some wounds are real. Some injustices cut deep. The Lord doesn’t treat our pain as if it were imaginary, and He doesn’t ask us to pretend it doesn’t hurt.
Yet Christ still calls us: “Forgive your brother from your heart.” Not by denying the hurt, but by placing it in His wounded hands.
To forgive is not to say, “It didn’t matter.” It is to say, “Lord, You matter more.”
Slowly, painfully, grace teaches us to lay down “my way” and to discover, step by step, the freedom of walking in God’s way.
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