There are many ways people get hurt, including Christian to Christian. One of the ways is, even in the best of intentions, our words from ones mouth to another person gets twisted and perverted by the Dark Side (the Devil and his minions). We all have our weaknesses and the Dark Side knows how to exploit it. Sometimes the arrows hit us and we don’t even know it. We are walking wounded. The wounds go deeper and deeper and we don’t even know how it is hurting our heart. As time goes by those wounds don’t heal on their own. The wounded needs to deal with those wounds or our hearts get harder and harder. After a while we don't even know why there is hurt; we just know we hurt.
Even when Christians have hurt each other they do need to reconcile. In some cases resolution is not possible. This is where forgiveness and grace really need to kick in. People suck and we are terribly flawed but we are called to love each other. We will not always be able to see eye-to-eye on a disagreement but that doesn’t mean reconciliation is not possible. See this previous blog entry for more.
Thoughts derived from The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
is this switchfoot?
Posted by: deb at January 12, 2006 06:26 AM
