Daily Devotionals

The Bent-Knee Time

Devotional: December 8th

IT TAKES BRAINS

Genesis 43:15-25

To forgive in your heart is often a pretty tough task. It’s a fight with yourself. It’s a matter of your heart and will. Yet it is the easier part of forgiveness, even when not easy. To tell your forgiveness, and make the other eager for it—ah! that’s another thing, a far harder thing. That’s a matter of brains and tact. It’s the heart stimulating the gray mat­ter of the brain. Yet this is what forgiveness means, often.