12:11 AM – WATCH WORD
Wouldn't the devil rub his hands in glee if he knew our preoccupation with his messengers was exhausting us, making us miserable and shortening our lives?
Consider. You don't wrestle with flesh and blood, you wrestle with the voices speaking through them – to you!
Forgiveness is enlightened self-interest.
One writer put it this way; “When Jesus said we should forgive “seventy times seven” he was teaching a message that breaks the power of our enemies. Even if we can't love our enemies, let's at least love ourselves more than we hate them and thus make sure they do not control our happiness.”
Even Confucius taught “To be wronged or robbed, is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
General Eisenhower's son was asked if his father ever had resentments, “No.” he replied. “Dad never wasted a minute thinking about people he doesn't like.”