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It's time to cut down trees!
Posted by Lev/Christopher on March 20, 2009 at 2:26am in Inspirations / Devotionals
Col 3:13-14 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Messiah forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity (agape), which is the bond of perfectness.
After the Civil War, Robert E. Lee visited a Kentucky lady who took him to the remains of a once beautiful old tree in front of her house. There she bitterly cried that its limbs and trunk had been destroyed by Federal artillery fire. She looked to Lee for a word condemning the North or at least sympathizing with her loss. After a brief silence, Lee said, "Cut it down, my dear Madam, and forget it."
The enemy is constantly attacking the body of Messiah. Some of his most effective tactics are anger, bitterness and unforgiveness. Paul wrote that we should never be ignorant of the enemy’s schemes (2 Cor. 2:11), and our lives should be marked with love one for another….and above all things, to put on charity. The word charity in Greek is the word agape!
Yah'shua has come and has forgiven us. We simply need to forgive others. We must base our relationships with others on the same criteria that Yahweh bases His relationship with us: love, acceptance and forgiveness. Our acts of forgiveness will set the captives free ... and at the end of it all, we may realize that we were the captives!
Let’s cut down the battered trees in our lives! Let’s seek to be forgivers and to put on agape love.
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