The disciples ought to have known Jesus, they had heard his voice so often, and gazed upon that marred face so frequently, that it is wonderful they did not discover him. We would wonder about the man who drops a glass bottle on the sidewalk, then gets down and so carefully collects all the jagged little pieces and then hugs them to his bosom until he bleeds. This is what we do when we spurn God's forgiveness. Let us reach forward, as Paul tells us in the same verse, to what lies ahead and enjoy the agreeables that God has in store for us today and tomorrow. Let us blot out others' transgressions and our disagreeables right now.
Every day is another chance and charge to become a new character.
We have another opportunity to change from Saul to Paul, from Jacob to Israel. Physically we do not change, of course, but it is our motives, our principles and our habits which change. Eternal life starts today. Pat Nordman Send a note to Pat Nordman , the writer of this devotion. We have such a perverted and sinful tendency to concentrate on the bone and forget the delicious meat of life.