Max Lucado Devotional 12th March 2025, Wednesday Message
Read Max Lucado Devotional 12th March 2025 – Read Inspirational Message written by Pastor Max Lucado
TOPIC: Because We’ve Been Given Grace
Forgiveness is not excusing, nor is it pretending. To forgive is to move on, not to think about the offense anymore. You don’t excuse him, endorse her, or embrace them. You just route thoughts about them through heaven. Revenge is God’s job.
By the way, how can we grace recipients do anything less? Dare we ask God for grace when we refuse to give it? It’s a huge issue in the Bible. Jesus was tough on sinners who refused to forgive other sinners. In the final sum, we give grace because we’ve been given grace.
In the story Jesus tells in Matthew 18, the master calls the servant in. “You wicked servant,” he says, “I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?” (Matthew 18:32-33 NIV). That’s a good question. We’ve been given grace – shouldn’t we freely give it?
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Max Lucado is a pastor, speaker, and best-selling author who, in his own words, “writes books for people who don’t read books.” He serves the people of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, and his message is for the hurting, the guilty, the lonely, and the discouraged: God loves you; let him.