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2 Corinthians 1:12
Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies
that we have conducted ourselves in the world,
and especially in our relations with you, in the
holiness and sincerity that are from God. We
have done so not according to worldly wisdom but
according to God's grace.
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February 21
Not with Worldly Wisdom
We must be careful that when we conduct our
Christian lives that we don't do so according to
worldly wisdom. According to worldly
wisdom turning the other cheek is going to have
us taken advantage of time and time again.
According to worldly wisdom the strong and
powerful are blessed, not the meek and lowly.
When we live our lives, we must do so in
recognition of God's grace. This does not
only mean telling other's about His grace.
It means that we must remember how much we have
been forgiven.
Jesus tells a parable of a man who was forgiven
a great debt and then holds a small debt over
another person. When the forgiver of the
large debt founds out, he has the man thrown
into prison for not forgiving the small debt.
We must look at other people through God's eyes,
remembering that we have been given a lot of
grace. It may not make any earthly sense
to forgive someone who has wronged us greatly
and may even have the potential to wrong us
again. But when we act according to God's
grace, we remember that we've been forgiven a
lot when there was no reason to forgive us
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