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2nd January,
2004
LLOYD
HARKNESS
It’s in the Lord’s prayer but what does it really mean?
“Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those who trepass against us?”
“We ask this lest we be counted among the dead in
trespasses."
(Romans
5:15-17)
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Forgive us our sins.
Forgive us our wrongs.
Forgive us our blunders.
Forgive us our false steps.
Forgive us our deviations.
Forgive us our stuff ups.
Forgive us our actions and our inactions.
Forgive us our offences, both the ones we’re aware of and
those we aren’t.
Forgive us our intrusions into places where we should never have
ventured.
Forgive us when we’ve stepped away from instead of towards
you.
Forgive us our moral debts to others, none of which we can repay
even though we try to set things right.
As we forgive trespasses -
sins, wrongs, blunders, false steps, deviations, stuff ups,
inactions, offences, intrusions, walking away, moral debts
- all of which can only be forgiven to be atoned for.
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THE WORD: TRESPASSES