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🌞 Good morning,
Today, let's talk about kindness and forgiveness, starting with the best part: how freely God has given both to you.
Have a blessed day.
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📖 Verse of the Day
“Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.”
Reflection:
Kindness comes easily with people who are kind back. It's another matter when someone has hurt us, and that's where today's verse seems to ask the most.
But look at how Paul says it: "Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you." The verse ends with good news about you. In Christ, God has forgiven you.
Paul never got over that. He had hunted down believers, and he stood there approving when Stephen was killed. He called himself the worst of sinners. Yet Jesus met him with mercy, and Paul spent the rest of his life passing it on. He wrote these words as a prisoner, still telling people to be kind.
That's where forgiving begins. It doesn't begin with working up warm feelings toward someone who wronged you. It begins with how God has treated you. He forgave all of it. He isn't keeping anything back to bring up later.
So if forgiving someone feels like too much today, start with what's already yours. God will never ask you to give away more mercy than He has given you, and He'll help you with every bit of it.
Ask Yourself:
When I think about how God has forgiven me, what am I most grateful for?
Is there someone I'd like God's help to forgive or to treat more kindly?
🙏 Prayer of the Day
Dear Father,
Thank You for forgiving me in Christ, fully and freely. I could never have earned it, and I don't ever want to get used to it.
If there's someone I've found hard to forgive, please help me, Lord. I'd love to treat people the way You've treated me, with a soft heart and kind words today, even when it costs me something. And when I need forgiving again, I'll come straight to You, grateful that I can.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
🖋 Quote of the Day
“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
— C.S. Lewis
🎵 Song of the Day
“Jesus Loves” — Zach Williams
A heartfelt song about how the love of Jesus reaches every kind of person, even the ones who feel furthest from Him.
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🧠 Trivia of the Day
In a story Jesus told, a father sees his son coming home after wasting everything, and runs to throw his arms around him. Which book tells this story?
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