Smudges & Grudges!
"For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer,
he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror;
for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately
forgets what kind of man he was."
James 1: 23-24
One day a man cleaned his garage. He didn’t
realize that in wiping his hand across his mouth,
he had given himself a smudge that looked like
a crooked mustache.
When he went to a hardware store that afternoon,
everyone smiled when they saw him. He did not
realize the reason until that night when he looked
in the mirror. Then he washed
his face.
The next morning the man opened his Bible, a little
frustrated that his reading for the day was in Leviticus.
He came to Leviticus 19:18: “You shall not…bear any
grudge against the children of your people, but you
shall love your neighbor as
yourself.”
He realized that he was still angry
at someone.
Bowing his head, he asked God for forgiveness,
and he released the anger, putting the man into
God’s hands.
Take time each day to look in the mirror
of God’s Word to help you with smudges
and
grudges.
"The Bible is like a mirror. When we
look into it, we see ourselves as we
really are in God’s eyes."
O. S. Hawkins
