Starting Over

…it keeps no record of wrongs.  1 Corinthians 13:5

Props: video game and system, television

Begin by playing three or four minutes of the video game in front of the children.  Make a few mistakes along the way.  Then, start the game over and pause it.

            I love playing video games.  If you play enough, you can make it all the way to the end.  But usually that’s not what happens.  Usually you make so many mistakes that you have to start over.  When you start over, do your mistakes stay with you?  (Allow for response).  No, thankfully not.  No matter how bad you might do in one game, you can always start fresh with nothing against you.  If all your mistakes stayed with you, you’d never finish the game. 

            All of us are going to mess up and make our friends mad sometimes.  They’re going to do the same thing to us.  Usually we don’t even mean to.  We’re just human.  We need to let our friends start over.  If we don’t let each other start over when we mess up, we’ll never make it all the way through and stay friends.  When your friends mess up, remember to forgive and forget their mistakes and let them start over.  True love is quick to forgive.