Give The Grace You Want To Recieve

Good Morning!! If we aren't willing to make allowances for other people's faults, we will greatly limit our ability to develop meaningful relationships,...relationships that God could use to help fulfill His plan for our church or ministry. Sometimes forgiving a large offense seems easier than being gracious, about those little day-to-day annoyances. Almost everyone has habits or mannerisms that others might find irritating. And let's face it,...that includes us!

Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.—Colossians 3:13 (NIV)

God calls us to walk in forgiveness, to make allowance for each other's faults. So are we still sometimes focus on people's faults, rather than their needs? Their weaknesses rather than their strengths? Are we still allowing those negative focuses to block our ability to love and encourage? Even stopping us from working together toward a common goal?

God forgave us,...how can we do less?

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Father God, sometimes we get sidetracked by petty annoyances,...help us. Please forgive us and help us make allowances for others' faults,...just as we hope they will do for us. Amen.

"God doesn't do what He does BECAUSE of us. God does what He does in SPITE of us."