THE SECOND KIND OF PERSON

THOSE WHO CANNOT FORGET WHAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS DONE TO THEM

A friend once told me a story.

She had an affair over a decade ago in one of the northern countries. She said when she confessed to her husband what she had done, he left her and her kids and stayed gone for about a week. Then he came back and told her he’d forgiven her and that she shouldn’t mention it again. She was happy and tried every way to make up for it but he reminded her almost every day and is still very bitter. They have move nine times in the last ten years because he said he’s hoping they’ll find someplace on earth where the past won’t catch up with the present.

In the Bible, God did not “whitewash” His heroes. Abraham the patriarch lied and said he was single in order to save his own neck (Genesis 20). Samuel the prophet, allowed his sons to run wild and bring disgrace to his family though he led the nation (1 Samuel 8:15) and Apostle Peter without remembering how he denied His lord(Luke 23:54).

      Yet these are the people God uses. Indeed, they are the only people HE has to use-people just like you and me. Some say “Love is blind” but not God’s love, that 20/20. God knows the worst about us, yet He sees us not as we are, but as we will be when grace had done its work in us. The reason we can’t understand God’s love is because we have nothing to compare it to. Nothing in our past or our present relationships qualifies us to understand such love-yet it’s the greatest healing force on earth!