Daily Lesson for May 10, 2017

Today's Daily Lesson comes from Luke chapter 6 verses 37 and 38:

37 "Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven; 38 give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap; for the measure you give will be the measure you get back."

I read this Lesson and I imagine a big bushel of cotton. Fill it to the brim boll by boll and you can call the bushel full. But shake the bushel and then it's only half full. Fill it again and shake it another time. Now it's only three quarters full. Fill it to the top one more time and then keep on filling and filling until it looks like frosted muffin and then a small vanilla ice cream cone. Now it's full; only now and not before. 

Jesus says that's how full our bushel of forgiveness ought to be -- heaping full, overflowing full, too full. 

And the measure we gather will also be the measure that we'll get.