Graditude Where due

Today's Verse is Deuteronomy 23:7
Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.

While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, Edom forbad them from crossing their land, and the Egyptians had enslaved them, but God through Moses command Israel to remember something else about them. Edom, that they were from the brother of Jacob, and Egypt that they provided Israel with refuge. These things were to be held above the transgressions. Consider this with those that have offended you, do you owe them for some good they have done for you, remember that good, and while some discipline may be needed, It must be done with forgiveness, not and never to punish. Let us therefore acknowledge the debts of gratitude we owe others regardless of how they may later have misused us.

To God be the Glory
Scott