What happens when we ignore God’s commands? We fall into consequences. Matthew 18:34 was about the one who refused to forgive. It says, “And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him.”

That servant was forgiven an impossible-to-pay debt. Yet refused to forgive a fellow servant’s small debt. We are commanded to forgive as we have been forgiven. Ephesians 4:32. Colossians 3:13.

God’s commands are for our protection. Carrying an offense or a grudge negatively affects our health. Bitterness creates chemical changes. It drops acid on connective pathways in our brain. 

David wrote Psalm 31. Verse 10 says, “For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.” Psalm 66:18 says, “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear.”