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Stop Keeping Score
If someone has hurt you, don't spend the next ten 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 that happened years before
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 would get added to this list, and it kept growing until it
became a bitter giant in my heart.
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.
Prayer Starter: God, I don't want to keep score anymore and let my
unforgiveness hurt me. I release it to You and ask You to help me walk
in Your love, which keeps "no account of the evil done to it."
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Corinthians 13:5
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