We talk glibly about forgiving when we have never been injured; when we are injured we know that it is not possible, apart from God's grace, for one human being to forgive another.   Oswald Chambers  It's easy to say to someone, "You just need to forgive" when their situation doesn't affect you personally or you can't relate to it.  But then.  But then when it happens to you all of a sudden it's not so easy to say, "I forgive" or to hear someone tell you "You just need to forgive."  And perhaps all of a sudden you realize that every time you have said it before in a glib manner it probably sounded insincere and without compassion.  As Chambers points out in today's quote it is easy to tell others to forgive when we haven't been been injured.  And then it happens to us.  Because the reality is that it isn't an "if" it's a "when".  We will all be injured in some way in our life that will require forg...

"Our danger is to water down God's word to suit ourselves. God never fits His word to suit me; He suits me to fit His word." O. Chambers Do I really need to say anything more than the quote above?  Do I really need to expound with some sort of commentary?  For a lot of you I don't.  For some of you I do, even though you'll get a bitter taste in your mouth. (That's your warning btw, if you want to quit reading now so you don't feel mad at me...or whomever!)  See we humans have a problem.  We think it's all about us.  We think that God should be and is who we want him to be, whatever that is.  When he's not, or so it seems in our estimation, we get offended with him.  We decide he's not real.  We begin to pick and choose parts of the Bible that apply and don't.  We begin to make the Bible fit our "all about me" beliefs rather than allow the Bible to become weaved into the very fiber of our beings.  We do what Chambers so correct...