Keeping Score

It (Love) does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered – 1Cor 13:5

You keep score in GAMES – Not in RELATIONSHIPS 

  Keep accounts

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger – Eph 4:26

Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar, and there recall that your brother has anything against you, leave your gift there at the altar, go first and be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Settle with your opponent quickly while on the way to court with him. – Matt 5:23-25a

Unresolved Issues are Relational Time Bombs

Those who conceal their sins do not prosper, but those who confess and forsake them obtain mercy – Prov 28:13

  Beware of

But David pursued, he and four hundred men, for two hundred who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor stayed behind – 1Sam 30:10

When David came to the two hundred men who were too exhausted to follow David and had been left behind at the brook Besor, and they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him, then David approached the people and greeted them. Then all the wicked and worthless men among those who went with David said, “Since they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoils that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, so that they may lead them away and leave.” But David said, “You must not do so, my brothers, with what the Lord has given us, for He has protected us and handed over to us the band of raiders that came against us. And who will listen to you in this matter? For as is the share of the one who goes down into the battle, so shall be the share of the one who stays by the baggage; they shall share alike.” So it has been from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day. Now when David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the spoils to the elders of Judah, to his friends, saying, “Behold, a gift for you from the spoils of the enemies of the Lord – 1Sam 30:21-26

  Go for the

Love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor – Rom 12:10 RSV

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility consider one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others – Php 2:3-4

All scripture is from the New American Standard Bible unless otherwise noted