Sunday is the Lord's Day, and playing youth soccer games on Sunday makes a definite statement about the priorities in a community. There was no way we were going to participate. My family and I sat down to discuss the matter, but no discussion was really necessary. The consensus in the league was that Sunday was the only available day, so the makeup games were scheduled for Sunday afternoon. “This past soccer season, the league in which my son and daughter were playing had to make up two games due to rain (the price of living in Houston). Praise God for loving Christian spouses, siblings, and even children in whom both the Spirit of God and a willingness to be lovingly honest abide.” This is especially true when we are dealing with people who know and love us, those who live and serve in close proximity. If my brothers and sisters in Christ continue to tell me something about myself that I do not see as true and accurate, I must come to a place where I trust the body, looking at me objectively, more than I trust myself, looking at me subjectively. More importantly, we need to be the kind of people who acknowledge that truth. We are in desperate need of brothers and sisters who will tell us the truth. Every one of us thinks more of himself than he ought. “It is one thing for me to claim that God has changed me it is quite another for those around me to acknowledge that I have truly changed. Joseph and the Gospel of Many Colors: Reading an Old Story in a New Way And as we bask in the forgiveness of a perfectly holy and righteous God, we turn to our brother and say, “My sins are forgivable, but yours are not.” In other words, we act as though the sins of others are too significant to forgive while simultaneously believing that ours are not significant enough to matter.” In other words, we shake our fists at God and say, “Your standards may have been satisfied, but my standard is higher!” Finally, refusing to forgive is the highest form of arrogance. For the believer, we are saying that Christ’s humiliation and death are not enough. For the unbeliever, we are saying that an eternity in hell is not enough they need our slap in the face or cold shoulder to “even the scales” of justice. Second, unforgiveness says God’s wrath is insufficient. First, refusing to forgive is to put ourselves in the place of God, as though vengeance were our prerogative, not his. “If we refuse to forgive, we have stepped into dangerous waters.

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