Record Keeping

I like to keep good records. I keep track of the maintenance of my vehicles. I have a program that keeps track of my spending. I have a log to record my blood sugar. While keeping good records is essential to Christian stewardship, the Bible admonishes as not to keep record of how we have been wronged.

When people hurt us, we have two natural tendencies: remember and retaliate.
But that’s not what 1 Corinthians 13:5 tell us to do: “Love keeps no record of being wronged” (NLT). So how should you respond to the people who have hurt you? How do you handle all off those wounds and hurts that you’ve stockpiled in your memory?You don’t repeat them; you delete them.

The Bible says in Proverbs 17:9, “Love forgets mistakes. Nagging about them parts the best of friends” (LB). It also parts marriages and every other relationship you have. When we repeat our hurt by telling it to other people, gossip! We tell everybody else except God and the person with whom we have the problem. Did you know that God hates gossip? He hates it as much as he hates pride, because that’s what gossip is.

Gossip is pure and simple ego — trying to make ourselves look and feel better. Every time you share gossip, you are being prideful, and God hates pride and gossip. Love keeps no record of wrongs. Love doesn’t repeat a wound so that it turns into resentment or gossip or pride. Love responds to hurt by letting it go.

Love keeps no record of wrongs. Love doesn’t repeat a wound so that it turns into resentment or gossip or pride. Love responds to hurt by letting it go.

"Whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him and let it drop (leave it, let it go), in order that your Father Who is in heaven may also forgive you your own failings and shortcomings and let them drop” (Mark 11:25 AMP).