(1 John 4:10-11 NKJV) In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. {11} Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
My husband and I were faced with a situation that was very disturbing to us. About 8 months ago, we had someone that we cared about, whom we spent a lot of time with, took out to dinner, and invited over for all the holidays. We took this person in like one of our family members because we knew that this person had nobody else, only to find out that during this time this person stole from us, cheated us, and lied to us. Sometimes it’s so hard to learn the truth about a situation.
When this happened to us it was like a hard blow. We felt like we were in the ring and just got knocked out and everything in us was hurting.
We knew that we were not to hold bitterness or anger in our hearts and we fought this time after time, because it was trying so hard to creep in. The hardest part was that everyday we could see this person and it would remind us of what happened and we had to make a choice everyday to forgive or get angry.
We had evidence to show that things were stolen from us and we could have very easily set things motion to get it all back. But nonetheless, things are things and when it came right down to it we’d rather see this person experience love and give their heart to Christ..
Sometimes we have to sacrifice our pain for someone else’s gain. God did it for us.
Love someone today like you mean it!!
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
401-377-5400
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