March 21, 2022

Daily Devotion:

"Write Injuries in Dust, Benefitsin 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'seasy to shrug it off as "only natural." That's the problem! It is themost natural response we can expect. Not supernatural. It also can result intragic consequences.

Refusing to forgive and forget leads toother tragedies, like monuments of spite. How many churches split, then spinoff in another direction, fractured, splintered, and blindly opinionated?Whether a personal or public matter, how we respond to those who offend usquickly reveals whether we possess a servant's heart. It isn't enough simply tosay, "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'treally forgiveness at all.

Servants must be big people. Big enoughto go on, remembering the right and forgetting the wrong. Like the age-oldsaying, "Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble."

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