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A motorcycle policeman was in a bad wreck. He broke his left leg and his right arm. When he awoke after surgery he found the two casts in their proper places.
Then he looked down and saw a large bandage on his hairy chest. The kind that would be oh so painful to remove. Attached to the bandage was a note from his nurse, “A gift from the nurse you gave a ticket to last week. ”
Some people don’t just carry a grudge around, they keep giving it as a gift over and over again.
Letting go of a perceived wrong, or of a real one, can be hard. For some, it is nigh unto impossible. They have a constant burn on and they don’t look very hard for a hose of forgiveness to put the fire out.
Some people never have seen an apology they were willing to give or to accept.
They nurse their hurts as if they were a babe in arms. If you ask them when they will forgive the person who has hurt them, and if they are honest, they will tell you NEVER. If asked, “Does that mean you are going to hold that grudge forever?” Their answer might well be, “Well, when I get to the pearly gates…I guess I’ll have to forgive them…but it won’t be easy. ”
I know, they (and some places in these thoughts, they is you and me)…they would deny this, but I think they worship a selective Christ.
They love the gentle, loving Christ.
They love that He who is a healer of bodies and souls.
They love the promise of eternal life beyond the door of death. But when they come face to face with His commandment to forgive – and not just once, but seven times seventy, some Bible translations even spell it out - 490 times - it sticks in their throat and they just can’t or won’t do it.
That teaching, that example Jesus gave us during His life here on earth… to forgive, they erase that right out of the mix, right out of the picture. It just doesn’t fit what they are willing to do…so they ignore it…and they don’t do it.
And have you ever noticed that people who don’t forgive quite often become like the people they refuse to forgive? It’s a strange phenomenon, but sometimes spending so much time and energy engrossed in the faults of another, those faults have become part of their own personality.
TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW
Posted Thursday, 2nd. in Series on TWO JOLLY GREEN GIANTS;LOVE AND FORGIVENESS
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A Quote FROM Rev. Wyrick’s 9TH BOOK “THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN”
Do you know that five hundred and fifty-five feet above the ground, there sits on top of the Washington Monument an aluminum cap upon which is etched the phrase Laus Deo? What difference does it make? From this lofty height overlooking sixty-nine square miles of the District of Columbia . Would you prefer to change the writings on the 12th landing of its 898 monument steps, a prayer offered by the City of Baltimore . School children from New York and Philadelphia . Is there any significance that when the cornerstone was laid in 1848 a Holy Bible was put there by the Bible Society? There could, of course, have been a book on atheism or no religious book at all, but not if the leaders at that time had not truly believed that this was a “nation under God. ”
Our 16th president built on such cornerstones, as well as the personal cornerstones of men such as George Washington who wrote, “It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor. ”5 Then there was Thomas Jefferson who, before he was Chief Executive, made sure God was part of the Declaration of Independence. His request was unanimously accepted on July 4, 1776. Yet another of the Founding Fathers, still to be Commander-in-Chief, John Adams, wrote, “Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. ”6
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