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People Change

Closing remarks for our last day together. Someone said, ‘bitterness is like swallowing poison and expecting someone else to die’.

From what I’ve found, some of the most central principles of being a Jesus follower are forgiveness and grace. Whenever I hear about ‘brothers and sisters’ not associating with each other due to a disagreement or an argument, it saddens me. It’s a hard pill to swallow [so to speak]. Now, I’ll be the first to raise my hand and say I’m right there with the best of them, I’ve sneered at or passed judgment on someone due to what I’ve seen/heard of them. But the foundational issue with passing judgment or being bitter towards another is 1. It grows and spreads like disease. 2. It often times only ends up being detrimental to me.

Our song ‘People Change’ is one I hold close because God knows I’m a work-in-progress and I want/need the forgiveness of those around me at times.

Luke 6:41-42 says, “It's easy to see a smudge on your neighbor's face and be oblivious to the ugly sneer on your own. Do you have the nerve to say, 'Let me wash your face for you,' when your own face is distorted by contempt? ...Wipe that ugly sneer off your own face and you might be fit to offer a washcloth to your neighbor.”

Let us be a people who hold short accounts…a people who forgive and who forget. Thank God for grace. Thank God people change.

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We don’t view ourselves as experts in the the matter of life, but rather we’re fellow travelers. Let us live on purpose and let us live for Someone greater than ourselves. Until we meet again.