Once again this week I found myself yelling at my TV, “Enough with this story already!” Have you noticed how the news media in recent years have found themselves obsessed with certain stories? Day after day, week after week, they pour over every detail, explore every facet and just when you think nothing more can be said, they start in again. Why do they do it? The answer is simple, people will watch it. As much as we cry foul, ratings go thru the roof over such stories because people become fascinated and demand more. So the news delivers what they want, even though it has no real news value anymore. It happens in religion as well. In 2 Timothy 4:3-4, we read, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.” People often grow weary of truth and reality and instead want to turn to myth and self serving doctrine. And there will always be those that are willing to oblige their desires. We must be careful that what we seek in our religion is not just what we want, but what we need.
I always hated buying gifts for my Mom. If I got her something like a new set of pans, it was like saying “Here’s something you can use to go make me something to eat”. A gift for her was seemingly a gift for me. There are however gifts you give that benefit you more than the receiver. For example, forgiveness. When you give it, you are giving it to yourself as much as you are giving it to them. Jesus said that when we forgive others it means God is forgiving us our wrongs (Matthew 6:14-15). I once read: “ Heaven is where everyone's forgiven. Hell is where nobody's forgiven. So, when we forgive we pull heaven down into our lives. When we withhold forgiveness, we pull hell up into our lives ” Give yourself something nice today, Forgive.
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