DAY 257:

“Harboring offense, being unforgiving, bitterness, and betrayal are all forms of settling for LESS than the price Jesus paid with His life and Blood to make you eternally FREE!

If everything that opposes you results in offense, unforgiveness, bitterness, and betrayal, you are not growing and maturing in the love of God. In fact, you are settling and cementing yourself in Satan’s eternal traps and snares. You must learn that no matter what you go through, God ALREADY sent His Son to pay the price for your victory! Therefore, He will see you through EVERY controversy, if you believe, receive, and set your heart of love and thanksgiving upon Him!

Don’t forget that it was NOT your blood or life that paid the ultimate debt to set people FREE.. JESUS PAID IT ALL.. because He is LOVE!! Contrary to self-righteousness and religious opinion, He also paid it for those you have ought against..!

“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law,” (Romans 13:8).

Friends, more than ever before, develop a heart to LOVE others so you can look like Jesus and stay out of debt!! The world will know we are Christ’s disciples by our love one for another, not by our knowledge, offenses, bitterness, unforgiveness, judgments, or jealousy.. Jesus came to SAVE, not to condemn.. What are you doing with the BLOOD that Jesus spilled to save you??

“But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses,” (Matthew 6:15).

Salvation was FREE to us, and let’s not forget that Jesus PAID the PRICE while we were yet sinners! It is completely arrogant and selfish for anyone to receive this kind of mercy, grace, and unfailing love, without understanding the need to GIVE it to ALL!!

Many are foolishly settling and stewing in their debt of bitterness, offense, and unforgiveness, because they think they are right and everyone else is wrong.. The greater truth is: LOVE is ALWAYS right! Burn the scorecards you hold against others, because no matter how righteous you think you are, God won’t forgive your debts until you forgive your debtors! Now, that’s the power of real love..!”

~David E. Taylor~