What was the last thing your wife did to hurt you? If you knew the answer without even thinking… you may be keeping a record of wrongs… and therefore not loving her.
It is almost impossible to do. We always seem to remember things that hurt us. Even if we don’t want to. But is remembering and “keeping a record” the same thing?
I don’t think they are exactly the same.
To “remember” is to bring back; to bring back together; to recall.
But to “keep a record” is to have always before you; to maintain a list; to keep an account.
Love may remember that it was hurt… but when it does… it puts it aside, it forgives… rather than keep an account… it doesn’t hold it against an account.
Love is not like a wastebasket that holds all of the crumbled pieces of paper on which the description of the wrongs are written. It isn’t even like a paper shredder that dismembers the paper… since it might, through a lot of painstaking energy remember them.
Love is an all-consuming fire that completely destroys and burns up those pieces of paper.
Love covers a multitude of sins. Love destroys the record of the wrongs. It forgives.
And God is Love.
And when we receive the gift of eternal life through accepting the sacrifice that Jesus made and confessing Him as Savior and Lord… that All-Consuming Fire utterly destroys the list.
It keeps no record.
And His love doesn’t burn out.
Whenever we screw up… into the furnace of that Fire-Love goes the sheet.
Can’t you feel it burning?
SDG
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