True Forgiveness

In the Song of Solomon 5:12, the bride describes Christ as having eyes like a dove. You can take a dove and hit it, even beat it, strip it of it's feathers and it will exhibit no anger but will look on you with soft delicate eyes of compassion. The soldiers took Jesus and stripped him of his clothes, beat him, and nailed him to the cross and he looked on them with the eyes of a dove and said, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."

In examining this scripture it raises the question to our type of forgiveness. We forgive THIS time, but Christ 490 times in one day. We are to forgive one another like Christ forgives us. We will not forget, but Christ says, " he will remember our iniquities not more." We say people may not deserve our forgiveness, but God for Christ sake forgives all of our sins. Oh, but we are human and can't forget. The key to God's forgiveness is he said, "I WILL remember your iniquities no more. He choses upon our confession to forget. If we want to forget, with God's help we can forgive and forget to the point that even if we see someone who has offended us, it will not bother us. Remember the words of Jesus, that as we pray, "Father forgive us our debts AS we for give our debtors." I believe we have alot to learn about forgiveness!

The Dangers of Chewing Tobacco

The story goes like this: A 99 yr old man was sitting on his porch in his rocker chewing tobacco. He would rock and spit, as chewers do. He would rock back and forth and on the forward motion he would spit. I am not sure how to express spit as politically correct!

However, on one of his forward motions he rocked to far, the chair fell over on him and he died. I believe there could be a hidden message in this. Some would say it was the tobacco's fault. Then some would say it was his age that caused him to lose his balance. Some might even blame the poor old rocking chair. Whatever the reason, if you lean to far to spit your tobacco, it could cause your demise. This is a true story as the 99 yr. old gentleman is part of the family. I didn't say whether it was mine or my wife's did I?

What do you think was the cause of his death?

It wouldn't hurt to note I Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19