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Time to Forgive
2 CORINTHIANS 2.5-11
‘What can I do for you, then?’ The doctor smiled over his spectacles.
‘It’s my memory,’ said the patient. ‘I just can’t remember things like I used to.’
‘How long has this problem been going on?’ asked the doctor.
The patient looked puzzled.
‘What problem?’ he replied.
One of countless well-worn jokes about a problem we all discover as we get older. But remembering and forgetting isn’t just a matter of increasing years (and perhaps the increasing amount of information we stuff into our heads these days). It can be a matter of the will. If you really want to remember something, you can often make the effort and do so. That doesn’t surprise us too much. But, more surprisingly, you can intend to forget something, and actually succeed. You might think that the more you thought about your intention to forget it, the more you would in fact remember it. No doubt that sometimes happens, too. But it is one of the core disciplines of the Christian life that, with certain things, we should intend to forget them, and succeed...