To pray for forgiveness is perhaps the most foundational prayer of the Christian life. And while forgiveness is such a basic part of our walk, we often have an uncomfortable relationship with it; praying as the forgiven and yet also the unforgiving; as those who have been forgiven and loved by Christ, yet we struggle to forgive. In the fifth petition of the Lord’s Prayer we’ll see the profoundly humble posture of prayer and how through the wonderful promises of the Gospel we are empowered to be not only forgiven but forgiving.