Bible Verse of The Day – 5-25-19

Matthew 18:15 (NKJV) 15 “Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.

How many of us really want to do this? Be honest.

It’s so easy, instead, to go tell someone else what our brother/sister did against us. We get sympathy and it makes us feel better. But it never goes away or gets any better. That hurt feeling stays right there.

But in this verse, it says that the best way to handle it is to go and tell them. Talk to them, if we can, and tell them what we are upset about. Tell them what they have done that hurt us. If they listen and understand, things can be worked out.

I remember when my siblings and I would get bickering back and forth sometimes. My parents would let us get it out. They gave us time to work it out. But, after that was done and over, and we both said our parts; they would teach us the importance of letting it go.

In our home, it would not be unusual for us to say what we needed to say, but then just a short time later, we would be outside playing together again, like nothing had ever happened.

We all get upset over things now and then. Some days we are a little more sensitive than others. We are not going to be perfect at handling our emotions.

But if we learn to speak up and say something to the person that needs to be spoken to, instead of telling others, maybe we can settle our differences and be able to move past some of these things that like to keep us in bondage, feeling hurt and depressed.

Go. Talk to them. And pray that God will help us to work things out by saying it with the right heart, with the right tone and in the right timing. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Ecclesiastes 3:7 (NKJV) 7 A time to tear, And a time to sew; A time to keep silence, And a time to speak;

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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