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HOLDING GRUDGES
One day a visitor leaned on the old
fence around a farm, while he watched an old farmer plowing with a mule.
After awhile, the visitor said, "I don't like to tell you how to run
your
business, but you could save yourself a lot of work by saying 'Gee" and
'Haw' to that mule instead of just tugging on those lines."
The farmer pulled a big handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his face,
and said, "Reckon you're right, but this mule kicked me five years ago
and I ain't spoke to him since."
The moral is obvious. A grudge is harder on the one who holds it than the
one against whom it is held.
The apostle Paul said that we are to forgive one another if any man have
a quarrel against any. Just like Christ forgave us, we are to forgive
each other (Col. 3:13).
If God and Christ can extend mercy to you for your sins, surely you can
be merciful to those who offend you.
----Author Unknown.
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