Accounts Payable on Hold
Now, when you thank him, it's not only for the last gift he's given you; you have to keep in mind all the gifts that he gave you. How many times did he do these favors to you? It's only a wicked mind that can be so ungrateful and thank just for now.
Each time, you come with the head more bent over; each time you're more contrite, you're more humble before Him. And that's why when we ask Hakadosh Baruch Hu to forgive us, and we thank Him, we have to know we have very many things that Hakadosh Baruch Hu already forgave us for in the past.
Don't think that these are old accounts that we settled already; that we canceled it out with our prayers, with our teshuva. No, nothing is canceled out. All the old bills are still lying there; only they are not going to be collected. But they're there.
