March 21, 2022
Daily Devotion:
"Write Injuries in Dust, Benefits
in Marble"
Psalm 103:10
He does not punish us for all our sins;
he does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve.
We say and hear that so much that it's
easy to shrug it off as "only natural." That's the problem! It is the
most natural response we can expect. Not supernatural. It also can result in
tragic consequences.
Refusing to forgive and forget leads to
other tragedies, like monuments of spite. How many churches split, then spin
off in another direction, fractured, splintered, and blindly opinionated?
Whether a personal or public matter, how we respond to those who offend us
quickly reveals whether we possess a servant's heart. It isn't enough simply to
say, "Well, okay—you're forgiven, but don't expect me to forget it!"
That means we have erected a monument of spite in our mind, and that isn't
really forgiveness at all.
Servants must be big people. Big enough
to go on, remembering the right and forgetting the wrong. Like the age-old
saying, "Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble."
