I see Grace...

Beloved, Child of most high God, pardon me for my slow reply. Just want you to know, every line you left on my blog, I see grace, I felt love of Abba in Heaven & thank you for all the prayers for me & my family. Deeply appreciated...

Work is heavy. Encounter many challenges for the month, just like David versus Goliath. Facing the Giants. My router burnt out, thus I lost internet connection & my desktop computer had some software conflicts & had to be formatted. Data recovery is a nightmare...

All in all of the fiasco, I kept telling myself "the battle is the Lord's" I shall just rest in Him. My sister should be better, I hardly get to see her as I worked till late, when I'm home she had rested for the night. Mum didn't mention about her medical condition, I just trust the Lord for her healing! Amen?! As God is good!

A close friend of mine 'sold me' out of a business deal recently. I was so angry with him as our years of friendship was traded for financial gains. Every man for himself. Get all you can, & can all you get. Survival of the fittest? I prayed about it & ask Jesus how could such happen to me? Me! Child of most high God!

He led me to Eccles 7:9 [TEV] "It is foolish to harbor a grudge". An eye for an eye becomes a neck for a neck & a job for a job & a reputation for a reputation. "Godwyn, When does it stop?" Vengeance fixes our attention at life's ugliest moments. Score-settling freezes our stare at cruel events in our past. Is this where we want to look? Will rehearsing & reliving our hurts make us a better person? By no means. It will destroy us...

Revenge removes Jesus from the equation. Vigilantes displace & replace Jesus. "I'm not sure you can handle this one, Jesus. You may punish him too little or too slowly. I'll take this matter into my hands, thank you" Ever have such thoughts? I admit I do at times. No one had a clearer sense of right & wrong than the perfect Son of God, Jesus!

Give grace. Forgiveness is not foolish. Forgiveness is, at its core, choosing to see our offender with different eyes. To forgive is to move on...Jesus lived the life we could not live & took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist. His sacrifice begs us this question: If he so loved us, can we not love each other? Having been forgiven, can we not forgive? Having feasted at the table of grace, can we not share a few crumbs? "My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other" Rom 12:21 [MSG]

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Max Lucado