Thought of the day.
The Lord can’t stand the stubborn heart bent toward evil, but he treasures those whose ways are pure.
For some reason, it seems to be a lot easier to hold on to the anger and hurt feelings associated with an injustice, and we can become comfortable with the feeling of retribution because we somehow want to punish the person that hurt us. After all, why should we be willing to forgive someone when what that person did or said was not our fault? We feel justified in our anger with the other person, so we feel that we have every right to be stubborn and locked into the position we are taking. Imagine if Jesus adopted the same attitude and didn’t forgive us of all our trespasses.
Don’t get stuck on your position for the mere sake of maintaining a position. Be willing to compromise in order to move forward. Stubborness, like anger keeps us from moving beyond hurt feelings, and it also perpetuates a strained relationship.
Stubborness is not a fruit of the Spirit.
Erick Bouwmeester