Some offenses and wrongs are difficult for me to turn loose.<\/p>\n
Oh, I like to think I’ve forgiven. I like to think I’m big enough and strong enough and mature enough to get over it. But sometimes I allow those wrongs and offenses to stick around like the good friends they aren’t.<\/p>\n
In Proverbs 20 I read this morning:<\/p>\n
“It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling”<\/em> (3).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That reminded me of a verse I read yesterday:<\/p>\n
“The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression”<\/em> (Proverbs 19:11).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Without question, I need a greater supply of (or at least, a greater yielding to) God’s discretion. How else shall I be able to cease from strife and pass over a transgression while deferring my anger?<\/p>\n
That is solely the Lord’s work.<\/p>\n
“Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?”<\/em> (Proverbs 20:9).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Not I!<\/p>\n
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit spirit within me”<\/em> (Psalm 51:10).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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