Forgiveness - The delete key
Bible reading: Matthew 6:9-13
Focus verse: Matthew 6:12 – Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
I must admit that my typing skills aren’t all that good so I frequently
use the delete key to help me write and pass accurate information to
other people. It’s possible that we will never be very accurate every
time we write or pass information. I try to imagine if this key was
missing in a computer or phone; communication would be difficult.
Accumulation of mistakes would make your work, information or paper to
present to be senseless, lacking in meaning hence low or no grading.
People would present information they didn’t intend to. So the delete key is
the key that helps your writing be on course. It is a key you can’t
avoid no matter how accurate you try to be.
Our lives have so many keys but forgiveness represents the delete
key. It is the button we can’t avoid clicking daily if we want to stay
on course with our walk with God and be presentable to God and to the
people around us as imitators of Christ. Imagine if all the unedited
work full of mistakes is what you could present for awarding, what
grades could we get? That’s what happens when we don’t click the delete
key in our lives. We should click it each time we make mistakes to
others or whenever others do mistakes to us. Unfortunately, for some
people this key is either dead, rarely used or just ignored in their
lives. Jesus knew the importance of this key in our lives and instructed
us to click it in our daily prayers. He said each day we need to ask for
forgiveness as we also have forgiven others who trespass against us. He
further states that if you don’t forgive then you too will not be
forgiven, Matthew 6:14-15. Paul further states that, “You yourself are
our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody. You show
that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written
not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of
stone but on tablets of human hearts.”
Pastor Eliazar Wambo
Makira Baptists Church – Mfangano Kenya
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Friday, October 11, 2024
Forgiveness: The Delete Key
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Our Shelter In The Storm
Scripture Reading: Psalm 46
Focus Verses: Psalm 46:1-3 "God is our refuge and strength,
always ready to help in times of trouble.2 So we will not fear when earthquakes come
and the mountains crumble into the sea.
3 Let the oceans roar and foam.
Let the mountains tremble as the waters surge! “
Last
April, Kenya experienced widespread flooding. Now flooding has come to
America. More specifically to my state of North Carolina. About 250km
from my home in the mountains of North Carolina hundreds and maybe
thousands of homes and businesses have been swept away by flood waters.
This all happened one week ago. There are over 250 confirmed dead and
still hundreds are missing. We are sad to see such devastation happen
to our neighbors to the west. We would ask you to please pray for these
people who are suffering.
Psalm
46 tells us that natural earth disasters will take place. Even Jesus
told us that in this life you will have trouble. Even if we don't know
why bad things like this happen, we must trust that God knows what He is
doing. Since this tragedy happened last week I have seen how neighbors
have come together to help each other. I have driven my vehicle out to
the affected area to take much needed supplies for hurting people.
Psalm 46:1 says “God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help
in times of trouble." Some people have lost their home, their
business, they even have lost family members. Sometimes you may lose
everything that you have in this world and you realize God is all that
you have. And He is willing, ready, and able to help in our time of
need. God will receive glory from every tragedy. He can take the worst
of circumstances and turn it around for His good, and our good. Maybe
you’re going through a very difficult time in your life. As the
Psalmist says “do not fear, God is our refuge and strength and ready to
help. God alone is our shelter in the storm.
Bobby Johnson
Interlocking Ministries
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