Welcome to another daily encouragement from the Our Daily Bread Devotional.

Today's reading titled Extending Mercy was written by Amy Boucher Pie.

Reflecting on how she forgave Manasseh, the man who killed her husband and some of her children

in the Rwandan genocide, Bayada said, my forgiving is based on what Jesus did. He took the punishment

for every evil act throughout all time. His cross is the place we find victory, the only place. Manasseh had written to Biatta from prison more than once,

begging her and God for forgiveness as he detailed the regular nightmares that plagued him.

At first, she could extend no mercy, saying she hated him for killing her family.

But then, Jesus intruded into her thoughts.

And with God's help, some two years later, she forgave him.

In this, Bayada followed Jesus' instruction to his disciples to forgive those who repent. He said in Luke

Chapter 17 that even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you

saying I repent, you must forgive them. But to forgive can be extremely difficult, as we see by the

disciples' reaction, increase our faith.

Bayada's faith increased as she wrestled in prayer over her inability to forgive. If like her,

we're struggling to forgive, we can ask God through His Holy Spirit to help us to do so.

As our faith increases, he helps us to forgive.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Luke, chapter 17, verses 1 through

5.

Jesus said to his disciples, things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe

to anyone through whom they come.

It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their

neck than to cause one of these little ones to

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