Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15. The title of today's post is

Make It Serve You. I've shared posts on the subject of forgiveness for the previous two days.

Today's post reveals, to some extent, the sense of humor God has.

A couple of years after insisting that I forgive a man, I blame for so much pain in my family,

and giving me the grace to do so, you can read about that in the previous two days' posts,

the Lord led me to Christ for the Nation's Institute in Dallas, Texas.

Shortly after arriving, to my complete surprise, I ran into the son of this man,

who was also there as a student.

Tom, not his real name, happened to be in the cluster of 15 or 20 students who became my inner

circle.

He was a few years younger than me and had no idea of the hatred I once held for his dad.

I'm sure he was completely unaware of what had even taken place a few years prior to this.

Tom had gotten into drugs and alcohol while in high school and become horribly addicted.

He had come to Christ and was attending the Bible Institute to help him

firm up his walk with the Lord. I found it very encouraging that I could relate to him with no feelings

of awkwardness or resentment. About six months into my time there, Tom had a bit of a relapse and used some recreational

drugs, which was obviously against the strict policy of the Bible College.

The school is not a rehabilitation center equipped to deal with drug addiction and

rehabilitation, so they were very firm in their stance. To violate the policy meant dismissal,

along with suggestions for finding a place more suited to helping them.

Of course, if Holy Spirit led otherwise, they made exceptions.

The Dean of Men, who would be making this decision and doling out the consequences,

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