It's time to cut down the trees!

Col 3:13-14 Bear with each other, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against anyone: even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love (agape), which is the bond of perfection.

Tidbit on America ’s Civil War:
Gen. Robert E. Lee visited a Kentucky lady who took him to the remains of a once beautiful old tree in front of her house. There she bitterly cried that its limbs and trunk had been destroyed by Federal artillery fire. She looked to Lee for a word condemning the North or at least sympathizing with her loss. After a brief silence, Lee said, "Cut it down, my dear Madam, and forget it."

The enemy is constantly attacking the body of Messiah. Some of his most effective tactics are anger, bitterness and unforgiveness. Paul wrote that we should never be ignorant of the enemy's schemes (2 Cor. 2:11), and our lives should be marked with love one for another...and above all things, to put on charity. The word charity in Greek is the word agape!

Yeshua (Jesus) has come and has forgiven us. We simply need to forgive others. We must base our relationships with others on the same criteria that God bases His relationship with us: love, acceptance and forgiveness.

Our acts of forgiveness will set the captives free ... and at the end of it all, we may realize that we were the captives!

Let's cut down the battered trees in our lives!

Let's seek to be forgivers and to put on agape love.


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