In the mind of the unforgiving servant : Justifiable or not?
Anger, they say, lies in the bosom of fools (Ecclesiastes 7:9). But what defines a person as a fool exactly? Is it the thought process, or the angry action itself? Backing up a bit, Jesus told a story in Matthew 18 : 21-35, of a servant who owed his boss a lot of money and couldn’t pay up when it was accounted for by him. From the description NIV gave of him, he owed ‘millions of dollars’ which implies he’s also kind of rich to an extent (at least enough to amass that kind of debt) or doing some kind of business that gave him the confidence to borrow that large sum…enough to lend another. So, given his reputation and the ‘respect’ he commanded from ‘Junior servants’, it is imaginable the humiliation he felt when he was bundled off with his wife, his kids, and all he had to sell off at the slave market - reputation in the mud, his shoulder pad balloon was deflated and he felt exposed. But why the take out on the ‘lesser servant’ though? Was it sheer frustration?...