Forgiveness

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

O Lord, remember not only the men and women of goodwill but also those of ill will. But do not remember the suffering they have inflicted upon us; remember the fruits we brought thanks to this suffering, our comradeship, our loyalty, our humility, the courage, the generosity, the greatness of heart which has grown out of this; and when they have come to judgment, let all the fruits of that we have borne be their forgiveness.

Prayer of an unknown woman, found on a piece of wrapping paper in Ravensbrück concentration camp

This Day's Verse

“Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord Almighty—you will succeed because of my Spirit, though you are few and weak.”

Zechariah 4:6
The Living Bible

This Day's Reprise

I neglect God and his angels for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

John Donne

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find him.

Blaise Pascal

This Day's Verse

Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret for long ages but is now disclosed and through the prophetic writings is made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—to the only wise God be glory for evermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.

Romans 16:25-27
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Forgiveness is not an emotion, it’s a decision.

Randall Worley

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

You cannot claim to worship Jesus in the tabernacle if you do not pity Jesus in the slum. Now go out into the highways and hedges, and look for Jesus in the ragged and the naked..in those who have lost hope, and in those who are struggling to make good. Look for Jesus in them; and when you have found him, gird yourself with his towel of fellowship and wash His feet in the person of his brethren.

Frank Weston

This Day's Verse

For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.

Psalm 1:6
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

It would seem, after having been a Christian for almost 80 years, that I would no longer do ugly things that need forgiving.  Yet I am constantly doing things to others that cause me to have to go back and ask their forgiveness.  Sometimes these are things I actually do—other times they are simply attitudes I let creep in which break the circle of God’s perfect love.

Corrie ten Boom

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Slow me down, Lord! Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind. Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time. Give me, amidst the confusion of my day, the calmness of the everlasting hills. Break the tensions of my nerves and muscles with the soothing music of singing streams that live in my memory. Teach me the art of taking minute vacations…of slowing down to look at a flower, to chat with a friend, to pat a dog, to read a few lines from a good book. Remind me each day of the fable of the hare and the tortoise, that I may know that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than measuring its speed. Let me look upward into the branches of the towering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well. Slow me down, Lord, and inspire me to send my roots deep into the soil of life’s enduring values that I may grow toward the stars of my greater destiny.

Wilferd Arlan Peterson

This Day's Verse

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:14
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Nobody is kind to only one person at once, but to many persons in one.

Frederick W. Faber

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

The body, that is but dust; the soul, it is a bud of eternity.

Nathaniel Culverwell

This Day's Verse

He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Colossians 1:13-14
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Love is the one business in which it pays to be an absolute spendthrift: give it away; throw it away; splash it over; empty your pockets; shake the basket; and tomorrow you’ll have more than ever.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

When we wholeheartedly commit ourselves to God, there is nothing mediocre or run-of-the-mill about us. To live for Christ is to be passionate about our Lord and about our lives.

Jim Gallery

This Day's Verse

Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant; I formed you, you are my servant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me. I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Isaiah 44:21-22
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Observing that his grandmother spent a great deal of time reading the Bible, a little boy remarked to his mother: “It must be that Grandma is cramming for her finals.”

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Is my heart more aligned with Jesus’ mission or my own?

Meredith Houston

This Day's Verse

“Oh, what joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sins are put out of sight. Yes, what joy for those whose record the Lord has cleared of sin.”

Romans 4:7-8
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

Julie Galbraith, age 6, had on her headstone one of the loveliest inscriptions I know: “She came, she smiled, she left.”

Christopher Buckley

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

So often we pray and then fret anxiously, waiting for God to hurry up and do something. All the while God is waiting for us to calm down, so He can do something through us.

Corrie ten Boom

This Day's Verse

Then Peter and  the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

Acts 5:29
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

God forgets the past. Imitate him.

Max Lucado

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

No one can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, except those who have learned it by experience. It is a great matter when in extreme need, to take hold on prayer. I know that whenever I have earnestly prayed, I have been amply heard, and have obtained more than I prayed for. God, indeed, sometimes delayed, but at last He came.

Martin Luther

This Day's Verse

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Revelation 14:12
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

Augustine

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

A man should fear when he enjoys only the good he does publicly.  Is it not publicity rather than charity, which he loves?  Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charity?

Henry Ward Beecher

This Day's Verse

“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace.  In the world you will have tribulation.  But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

John 16:33
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Oh, my dear friends:
You who are letting miserable misunderstandings run on from year to year, meaning to clear them up some day;
You who are keeping wretched quarrels alive because you cannot quite make up your mind that now is the day to sacrifice your pride and kill them;
You who are passing men sullenly upon the street, not speaking to them out of some silly spite, and yet knowing that it would fill you with shame and remorse if you heard that one of those men were dead tomorrow morning;
You who are letting your neighbor starve, till you hear that he is dying of starvation;
Or letting your friend’s heart ache for a word of appreciation or sympathy, which you mean to give him some day;
If you only could know and see and feel, all of a sudden, that “the time is short,” how it would break the spell!  How you would go instantly and do the thing which you might never have another chance to do.

Phillips Brooks

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