daily prayer

Good morning! How are we faithing this fine Wednesday morning? Our choices about everything does indeed come down to scriptural advise. There is not anything that happens that wisdom cannot be gleaned from the Word. Check this out;

Phil 1:9-11
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ-to the glory and praise of God. NIV

That my friends is a good prayer. That is a noble and wise thing to ask. We need to seek God's wisdom whenever we can. I had a conversation recently with a person who was holding a grudge and when the Word was presented that tells us to hate the sin and not the sinner, consideration was taken. Realizing that sin is sin in God's eyes therefore what they did isn't any worse than what I've done , causes pause for reconsidering ones stance on judgemental thinking and the beginning of forgiveness. Man, we all get mad at things done to us but holding that person to a higher standard than what we are held to is not correct at all. If sin is sin then whatever I've done is no different than what they've done therefore the same treatment should be applied to both people, so it stands to reason that grudges are held against me also. Hummm...sobering and makes one reconsider. Man, you don't have to like it but you do have to forgive. Jesus said when asked that we forgive 7x70 times. Both ways that goes so the next time you find yourself tossing out judgement, stop and think about this.

Remember the Cler family...remember marriages and all the stuff associated with them...it's rough out there...

Heavenly Father,
Thank you for forgiving what i have done. Help me forgive likewise and not hold grudges. Lord we get hurt and we want to retaliate but we understand it is not right but still want to. Help us forgive quickly while making wise choices about things in our lives. Open up your Word so we can apply sound things to our lives. We praise and want to live uprightly but are weak. Help us see truth and be representatives of your peace and love. We lift the Clers to you, comfort and hold them, in Jesus name, amen