I read this awesome excerpt from Letters and Papers
from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (a dead super stud for Jesus).
"Welcome one
another, therefore, as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God (Romans
15:7) In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it
no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don't insist
on your rights, don't blame each other, don't judge or condemn each other,
don't find fault with each other, but accept each other as you are, and forgive
each other every day from the bottom of your hearts. From the first day of your
wedding till the last the rule must be: "Welcome one another... for the
glory of God." That is God's word for your marriage. Thank God for
it; thank God for leading you thus far; ask God to establish your marriage, to
confirm it, sanctify it, and preserve it. So your marriage will be
"for the praise of God's glory." Amen.
May this be an encouraging word to those of you who
are bound by covenant to love a very specific sinner.
May this be an encouraging word to those of you who
are single and peeking into the realm of matrimony and the joys/pains associated
with seeing sin so close up (both in your own treatment of another and of their
treatment of you).
We are sinners: marriage only all the more confirms that.
Ephesians 4:32
And be kind and compassionate to one another,
forgiving one another, just as
God also forgave you in Christ.
Did you see that?
"just as"
How did God forgive us? How did He show kindness and
compassion?
Think about that and then give that to one another.
That kindness, that compassion, that forgiveness.
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