by Dona Hake
I can remember like yesterday when I would go to Sunday School. I had a teacher that loved Jesus so much, and her passion was to share it with children. I will never forget her beautiful red hair and kind eyes. One Sunday our lesson was about how Jesus took our sins away by the power of His blood. She stood in front us with her flannel board, and on the flannel board was a heart with black spots on it, and then there was a pure white heart beside of it. Such a striking contrast…one heart bound up and the other was free. All I can remember as a little girl was that I wanted the pure white heart. I wanted to be free, and I wanted no parts of black spots on my heart. I wanted to understand how to keep my heart clean.
Thank God through His forgiveness, we can experience the pure white heart. Along with forgiveness that keeps us free He desires to shed His unconditional love upon our hearts that we be merciful to those around us.
Today I am encouraging you to desire a pure heart as you walk with Him. His forgiveness is always there for us to partake of. Nothing can stand in our way of possessing a heart that is pure before Him.
Let us also look to Him to help us to be merciful and forgiving. God’s love is so powerful and it can help us forgive wrongs done against us.
Love does not remember wrongs done against it.”
Do not permit the enemy to convince you that it is okay to keep an account of wrongs done against you. Unforgiveness is the enemy to our soul being free. Let us enjoy the freedom that forgiveness brings to our hearts! Today I leave you with this wonderful anonymous quote:
“Every person should have a special cemetery lot
in which to bury the faults of friends and loved ones.
To forgive is to set a prisoner free
and discover the prisoner was you”
(Unknown)