Making up

I read something today in the Milwaukee paper about a couple celebrating their 80th wedding anniversary. Yup, she was only 15 when they wed, which is how they made it to 80. Isn't that amazing?

Something a granddaughter said about them caught my eye, actually caught my heart: "Grandpa can't see very well, and Grandma can't hear very well. So they make up for each other." (See article below.)

What a great thing to say. Isn't that what it means to be a part of the Body of Christ? Note these verses:

• "Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you." Ephesians 4:32

• "bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive." Colossians 3:13

Isn't that what "making up for each other" looks like? Arthur Pink, in his The Attributes of God, says it another way: "When tempted to be disgusted at the dullness of another, or to be revenged on one who has wronged you, call to remembrance God's infinite patience and longsuffering with yourself." Then you can make up for each other.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/couple-celebrates-80-years-of-compromising-qu43ef7-138829074.html

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