In one Dennis the Menace cartoon, Dennis is shown walking away from the Wilson’s house with his friend Joey. Both boys have their hands full of cookies. Joey turns to Dennis and says, “I wonder what we did to deserve this?” Dennis answers with profound insight: “Look, Joey, Mrs. Wilson gives us cookies not because we’re nice, but because she’s nice.”
Can you fully comprehend how nice God is? Get a good Bible concordance and look up words like grace, longsuffering, kindness, mercy and forgiveness.
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared,
Grace, mercy, and peace will be with you from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
You see, every once in a while, Dennis would get it right and share it with a friend. Have you gotten it right? Are you sharing it with a friend?
Think about it.
Gary