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I always hating buying gifts for my Mom. If I got her something like a new set of pans, it was like saying “Here’s something you can use to go make me something to eat”. A gift for her was seemingly a gift for me.
There are however gifts you give that benefit you more than the receiver. For example, forgiveness. When you give it, you are giving it to yourself as much as you are giving it to them. Jesus said that when we forgive others it means God is forgiving us our wrongs (Matthew 6:14-15).
I once read: “Heaven is where everyone’s forgiven. Hell is where nobody’s forgiven. So, when we forgive we pull heaven down into our lives When we withhold forgiveness, we pull hell up into our lives”
Give yourself something nice today, Forgive.
Barry Haynes
Hope Church of Christ
Hope, AR