"Deserving"

It's one thing to acknowledge what someone deserves; It's another to force upon one "what they deserve"; And it's a Godly thing to forgive them of what they deserve.

It's a lesson I am learning. It is so easy to look at someone in a hardship and think "good, you deserve that." It's easy to have a hard heart, and make excuses why not to help someone, to look at the fact they would never help, and that they would do worse, so, that's reason not to do for them.

The problem with having this heart, is that it is not to be the heart of a child of God. I know this is one of my greatest struggles.

It's easy to look at all the great people in the Bible, and forget that they, too, had many faults. Murders, and adulterers... Things we view as some of the "worst" sins, yet they were of God, and they helped, and were helped of God.
Love is to overlook faults, to help anyway. This doesn't mean to allow a murder to murder, but it means they also need Christ, and as a child of the Living God, you (I am) are to share Christ with them-Share Love with them.

I often find myself getting wrapped up in all the faults of a person, and wanting to refuse the fact I need to love them anyway, like God loves me.

Counting the blessing that Jesus took the price so I don't have to face what I deserve as a sinful human being.

talks.

One thing I love about living with Granny is the talks. I don't always like them at the time, but I am so thankful for everyone of them. Any time I need to talk about something, she'll listen. Any time I need to hear something (weather I *want* to or not) she'll tell me.
We talk about anything and everything, more than you'd ever think of. We talk about the important things, and the unimportant things. We talk about games, and books, and laughs. We talk about memories, major events, and minor events. We talk about the future, and we talk about the past. We talk about how things used to be, how things are, and how things are going to be.

This is one of many thousands of blessing Christ as given to me.