5 Minutes with Jesus is a daily devotional series for people in the midst of real life, whether facing anxiety, grief, questions of purpose, or simply needing encouragement and connection. Hosted by Sheila Walsh, each five-minute episode offers Biblical truth, honest reflections on faith and emotions, and closes with a moment of prayer.
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| Sheila Walsh: Love Doesn’t Keep Score | 5 Minutes with Jesus | February 9, 2026
- The cross changed everything.
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- Jesus changes everything.
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- It means we get to come to him
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- And say, lord, i don't like this. i don't get this,
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- But i'm giving you this and i am letting go.
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- Stop where you are and god will meet you
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- There.
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- One of the most well-known passages in scripture about
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- Love is found in paul's first letter to the church in corinth.
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- You probably know this.
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- It reads. love is patient.
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- Love is kind.
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- It does not envy.
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- It does not boast.
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- It is not proud.
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- It does not dishonor others.
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- It is not self-seeking.
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- It is not easily angered.
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- It keeps no record of wrongs.
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- Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
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- Always protects, always trusts.
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- Always hopes.
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- Always perseveres.
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- I've known that passage since i was a child,
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- But one of the parts
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- That i've been thinking a lot about recently is this.
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- It keeps no record of wrongs.
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- What does that even look like?
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- Our son christian.
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- When he was a little boy, i could read him
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- So clearly whenever i was waiting
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- To pick him up in carpool lane
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- When he was coming out, i could tell
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- If he'd had good day or bad day.
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- And then one particular day,
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- He's walking toward the car and i'm thinking,
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- Oh wow, here comes the perfect storm.
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- But he's a boy and he's not going to talk first of all.
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- So we drove to the ice cream parlor, and halfway through
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- His sundae, he said to me, mom,
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- Do you want to know what happened to me today?
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- And i said, yeah, i do.
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- And he told me that one of his best friends
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- Had knocked over his desk, sent all his papers and everything
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- Flying all over the place.
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- And when the teacher turned round,
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- This best friend said that he didn't do it,
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- That it was christian.
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- And christian said, no, i did not do it. it was.
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- And he named his friend
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- And he said, mom, i got into trouble once
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- For knocking something over, which i didn't do.
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- And twice for tattling.
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- So at lunchtime i told my friend,
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- Listen, you have to go back in
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- And tell the teacher that you did it.
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- And he said, my friend's not going to do that.
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- So i've made a decision, mom.
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- I've decided two things.
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- One, he's no longer my best friend and two,
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- He is off my prayer list.
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- Totally got it.
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- Later that night, i said to krista, hey,
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- You know, what would you like to go on?
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- Kind of like an adventure.
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- And he was like, yeah, sure.
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- He was in his pajamas. he was ready for bed.
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- And i said, would you go and get that huge bag of flour
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- That i got from costco the other day?
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- So he went and got it,
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- And brought it over, and i said, okay,
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- We're going to need this on our adventure.
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- So we used to live near a golf course,
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- So we're outside and we're walking
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- And walking and walking and it's kind of dark by now.
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- And he kept saying, mom, are we there yet?
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- Are we there yet?
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- And i'm like, no, just a little bit further.
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- And you're you're going to need to keep this.
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- And eventually after a bit, he just sat down on the grass
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- And he said, mom, i can't carry this any longer.
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- And i said to him, darling, that's what it looks like
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- When you can't forgive.
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- You're the one that's out here carrying this flower.
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- Your friend's probably been in bed and sleep for 20 minutes.
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- And he said, mom, mom, that's not fair.
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- And i was like, you're right.
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- It's not fair.
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- But the truth is, fair doesn't live here.
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- But jesus does.
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- And i said, forgiveness when we decide not to keep
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- A record of wrongs.
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- Forgiveness.
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- We're actually the one that gets set free.
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- Forgiveness doesn't mean that what your friend did was okay.
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- It just means you don't
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- Have to be the one out here carrying the bag of flour.
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- I don't know what your life's like.
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- I don't know what has been done to you.
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- Probably something way worse
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- Than somebody knocking over your desk
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- When you were in elementary school.
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- Maybe somebody has really, really wounded you.
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- And there's just this kind of bitterness inside
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- Because you want them at least to be sorry.
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- You want them at least to ask for forgiveness,
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- Or you want god to get them, basically.
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- And sometimes it just seems like
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- You're the one still carrying the pain.
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- And they've moved on with their life.
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- You are
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- Not stuck and you are not a victim.
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- Forgiveness is god's gift to us
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- To live in a world that is not fair.
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- It means you get to take whatever that was that wounded
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- You so deeply.
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- And sometimes
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- We're really deeply wounded, and it takes time to process.
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- And the great news as you get to start where you are.
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- You don't have to immediately feel full of forgiveness
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- And wonder and blessing them on their life.
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- Stop where you are.
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- Tell god the whole truth.
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- But i discovered in my own life when someone had really wounded
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- Me, that when you begin to pray for that person,
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- It's really hard to hold prayer
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- And anger at the same time.
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- And you might start off that way.
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- But the great thing about coming to the lord
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- Was how you're feeling is you get to give that to him
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- And you get to to do what paul said
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- When he wrote to the church in corinth.
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- Love keeps no record of wrongs.
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- How often do we have that within a family?
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- Well, we know what she did, and we know what he did.
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- The cross changed everything.
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- Jesus changes everything.
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- It means we get to come to him
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- And say, lord, i don't like this. i don't get this,
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- But i'm giving you this and i am letting go.
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- Stop where you are and god will meet you there.
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- Let me pray for you.
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- Father god, i want to thank you so much
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- That jesus, you are willing
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- To walk on this earth fully god and fully man.
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- So you understand everything that we walk through.
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- You've experienced everything that we've gone through.
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- And lord, i pray right now
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- For anyone who feels like they're just holding onto
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- This bitterness.
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- Lord, will you help us by your spirit
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- To let go and leave this at the foot of the cross?
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- In jesus name.
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- Amen.
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