I have been planning a fundraiser dinner and it seems that all my time has been spent on making sure everything is going to work out just perfectly for the dinner. It's a lot of hard work. I have a lot of people helping me with the planning, but sometimes they don't follow the guidelines I have given them to follow. I started getting really frustrated with a few people who were supposed to be helping me but who were instead making it harder for me. I was angry with them for going against the guidelines I had given them to follow.
But then I realized how silly I was acting. Here I was angry and frustrated because a few people weren't following the guidelines I had given to them, and there God is, continually watching those He loves disobey Him. I gave my team guidelines to follow, God gave us laws. My guidelines are nothing to His laws. Even my being angry and frustrated with people was sinning against God and breaking the rules He gave me about loving others unconditionally. God is so loving that He not only forgives us for breaking His laws, He erases them from His memory. Hebrews 8:12 says, "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more." He wants us to follow Him, but when we fall away from Him, He doesn't get angry with us, rather He tries to bring us back to Him so that we can be forgiven.
Next time you are angry or frustrated with someone for breaking your "rules" remember that you are breaking Gods rules with your anger. And remember that their breaking your "rules" is nothing compared with us breaking God's rules.
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