{"id":6529,"date":"2018-10-15T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6529"},"modified":"2018-10-15T07:28:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T14:28:06","slug":"forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"FORGIVENESS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Luke 17:3-4<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>&#8220;<\/em><em>Take heed to yourselves.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>If your brother sins<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>against you,<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, \u2018I repent,\u2019 you shall forgive him.<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you are like me, there are times when a song pops into your head and it seems that you go over and over it. In the past day or so I have had that experience. The song is one that Bing Crosby sang many years ago &#8212;\u00a0<em>Easy to Remember, But So Hard to Forget\u00a0<\/em>referred to a sweetheart that was gone but not forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>As I have thought about the words, I have been reminded how difficult it is for some people to forgive. The easy part is remembering the offense against us &#8212;\u00a0<strong>forgetting<\/strong>\u00a0the offense is the hard part.<\/p>\n<p>Across the years I have been called upon to counsel many people dealing with the issue of forgiveness. They may say they have forgiven the offender, but at the same time their actions reveal that their thought life continually dwells on the way they were treated by the other party.<\/p>\n<p>I have come to realize that the only reasonable way of dealing with our inability to forget the offenses of others is to focus on our own. Imagine a situation where another person is guilty of 85 percent and we are guilty of 15 percent. We must\u00a0<em>remember<\/em>\u00a0our own transgressions and ask the Lord to show us how to\u00a0<em>forget\u00a0<\/em>our hurt.\u00a0<em>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>May God richly bless you as you\u00a0\u00a0by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0&#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 17:3-4 &#8220;Take heed to yourselves.\u00a0If your brother sins\u00a0against you,\u00a0rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.\u00a0And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, \u2018I repent,\u2019 you shall forgive him.\u201d If you are like me, there are times when a song pops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-luke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}