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Stop Keeping Score
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We all get hurt sometimes, and it’s
vitally important to learn how to forgive quickly so we can be
spiritually strong and healthy. For example, if someone has hurt you,
don’t spend the next 10 years of your life hurting yourself by hanging
on to that offense. Most likely, the other person isn’t even thinking
about you, while you dwell on the incident for years. That only hurts
one person—you.
When we walk in unforgiveness, we try to “keep score,” viewing ourselves as better than the other person.
Back in the early days of our marriage,
when Dave and I were fussing and fuming at each other, I would bring up
stuff from the past that he couldn’t possibly remember and Dave would
say, “Where do you keep all that stuff?” Well, I had a place, and it was
all in there eating at me. And every new thing Dave did wrong was added
to this list until it became a bitter giant in my heart.
Thank God I’ve learned a better way to
live! When we walk in God’s love, we find freedom by keeping “no
account” of wrongs done to us. If you’re hurting from the pain of
unforgiveness today, ask God to help you stop keeping score. You can let
go of your bitterness today.
