THE WRONGS WE HAVE SUFFERED

One of the great arts in life is to learn by grace not to give long attention to wrongs suffered.

A writer tells how “…in Polynesia, where the people used to spend much of their time fighting and feasting, it was customary for each man to keep some reminders of his hatred. Articles were suspended from the roofs of their huts to keep alive the memory of their wrongs — real or imagined.”

In other words they nursed their wrath to keep it warm.

Christian love says that we are not to take into account a wrong suffered ( 1 Cor. 13).

God calls us to look away from the wrongs we suffer leaving them with Him, and focusing on brighter days ahead.