Ever notice how easy it is, when you haven’t been reading the Word, to get sucked into a worldly mindset? Recently, I got really angry with someone at work for a comment they made and my subsequent thoughts towards that person were, well… not conducive towards that person seeing their next birthday—if you know what I mean? In retrospect, of course, I felt very bad about my “knee-jerk” mental reaction towards that person. Not long after the incident I found myself reading in 1 Peter, Ephesians, and other places in the Word discussing the topic of having great depths of patience with others. We are supposed to exemplify love, patience, and forgiveness for others in our words and actions. We do it because it should be an outward sign of our changed lives—we are new in Christ and this is how he calls us to love others.
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