"Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren."
1 Corinthians 6:7-8
I feel like it is so easy to see the wrong side on this one... accepting wrong just seems so hard to accept, and allowing someone to cheat you... wow. But then, stepping back, it is also easier to see God's perspective on this. What else is forgiveness about, if we can't let go of something that has been done to us... and what else is love and learning to be a Zion people if we don't give other people the same benefit of the doubt as we would wish for ourselves, or that we would grant to other members of our family.
And they *are* family, which I think is the core of God's message here, right? Why are we harming and cheating each other, when we are brothers and sisters? And maybe today that is what we need to remember most of all... all of those people out there that we are complaining about and that we might not like... they are our family. Let's do all we can to learn to love them and forgive them, as we would anyone we think of as our own. God can help us learn, because he truly loves us all, and knows the goodness within each of us.
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