Drop the Board Before It Drops You

Read The Daily:
“Come to terms quickly with your enemy before it is too late…” – Matthew 5:25

Post by Johnda Carpenter

The key thought in today’s reading is “Drop the Board”. I would say that I am guilty of “holding onto boards” for a bit longer than I should. However, my truly great skill is what I like to call “out of sight, out of mind”. I can let go of stuff as long as time passes or I don’t see that person for a while. Although, the second I see them, I pick it right back up. I will get myself so worked up by just seeing them. (This may or not be why I like to snooze people for 30 days on Facebook so I don’t have to see them. LOL) The sad part of this skill is that after so much time has passed, this person has zero clue that I am even mad or worked up. Clearly, this means that they are affected in no way, shape, or form by my anger….Only I am affected. So why do I keep doing it? What is my purpose? There is no purpose. We have to learn to let go before we let something ruin us.

Offense is like a 2×4—you carry it long enough, and it’s only a matter of time before it drops on someone. Sometimes, that someone is you. Jesus didn’t just preach unity—He modeled it. He washed feet, broke bread with betrayers, and prayed for those who abandoned Him. Not because they deserved it, but because bitterness never builds bridges.

Bitterness never builds bridges, but it can burn them down

The longer we hold onto offense, the more damage it does. We become cynical. Distrusting. Isolated. And the people around us feel it, even if we think we’re hiding it well. You weren’t built to carry offense. You were built to carry grace. But grace only flows through open hands.

So drop it. Not because they earned it. Not because you’re weak. But because you’re tired of tripping over the same board that’s been blocking your freedom. Unity starts when we stop trying to win and start trying to heal.

Prayer for the Day

God what are you  showing me?  What am I going to do about it?
God help me to see one person that I can serve through a kind word, random act of kindness, or simple gift today?
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Read The New Testament In A Year

4 x 6 Plan | Read: Mark 10:35-45 &  2 Corinthians 1:1-11

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came over and spoke to him. “Teacher,” they said, “we want you to do us a favor.” “What is your request?” he asked. They replied, “When you sit on your glorious throne, we want to sit in places of honor next to you, one on your right and the other on your left.” But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink from the bitter cup of suffering I am about to drink? Are you able to be baptized with the baptism of suffering I must be baptized with?” “Oh yes,” they replied, “we are able!” Then Jesus told them, “You will indeed drink from my bitter cup and be baptized with my baptism of suffering. But I have no right to say who will sit on my right or my left. God has prepared those places for the ones he has chosen.” When the ten other disciples heard what James and John had asked, they were indignant. So Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers in this world lord it over their people, and officials flaunt their authority over those under them. But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of everyone else. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.”  Mark 10:35-45

This letter is from Paul, chosen by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and from our brother Timothy. I am writing to God’s church in Corinth and to all of his holy people throughout Greece. May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace. All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. For the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ. Even when we are weighed down with troubles, it is for your comfort and salvation! For when we ourselves are comforted, we will certainly comfort you. Then you can patiently endure the same things we suffer. We are confident that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in the comfort God gives us. We think you ought to know, dear brothers and sisters, about the trouble we went through in the province of Asia. We were crushed and overwhelmed beyond our ability to endure, and we thought we would never live through it. In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely only on God, who raises the dead. And he did rescue us from mortal danger, and he will rescue us again. We have placed our confidence in him, and he will continue to rescue us. And you are helping us by praying for us. Then many people will give thanks because God has graciously answered so many prayers for our safety.  2 Corinthians 1:1-11

Read More – Bible Project Overviews: Mark, 2 Corinthians