If you never got to play Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles on the Nintendo GameCube with your friends in multiplayer mode, you missed out on a truly unique experience. Up to four players would come together and work as a team to save their world from the poisonous Miasma that was killing it, and they only way for the entire group to safely proceed through it was for a member of the team to actively carry the chalice of myrrh that would provide protection for those underneath its’ cover. While three players were jubilantly hacking and slashing their way through the level, one team member had to be willing to literally carry this bucket so the entire team would remain protected during their journey. Sure, volunteering to be the one to “carry the bucket” certainly wasn’t fun, but choosing to act as a covering for others rarely is.

As followers of Christ, we have a responsibility to give His forgiveness as freely as we have received it, and during our adventures there will be many times we will need to “carry the bucket” and act as a healing covering for our fellow explorers. Stepping in and placing an undeserved covering over the heads of those who have made mistakes that harmed us and others will rarely come easily or “feel fair”, but forgiveness isn’t something to be earned… it is something we are instructed to give. Let’s pick up the bucket and be a healer today.

And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.” 1 Peter 4:8

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. Ephesians 4:32

He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates friends. Proverbs 17:9

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