One of the unmistakable characteristics of the love Paul speaks of in I Corinthians 13 is that it is not suspicious. He clearly states, "love thinks no evil." Paul expresses this in his letter to Philemon concerning Onesimus. "If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;" (Phile 1:18) He was speaking of two men that he believed to both be brethren. They had a past problem between them but, loving them both, Paul follows the example of the Saviors love. The basis for the love and forgiveness of brethren is that we are to do so "even as God for Christs sake has forgiven you." One of the greatest glories of Gods love and forgiveness is that He forgets! "I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." (Jer 31:34) Essential to true forgiveness then is forgetting! But where suspicion remains there is neither love nor forgiveness. Grace holds no lingering grudge. I have not forgiven my brother if I distrust him and am suspicious of him the rest of our days. If there is forgiveness, there is fellowship and where there is no fellowship, there has been no real forgiveness. If we have been wronged by our brother, may our Lord Jesus Christ break through our distrust, our suspicion and our isolation from him, saying, "If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account."