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Wounds Can Change Your Heart

Living in a world broken by sin, we suffer wounds of
many kinds. Perhaps the most painful are not the
physical ones but those of the heart. No one has power
to hurt us more deeply than somebody we love, somebody
we counted on to understand and support us. But there
are two ways to receive wounds. One leads to larger
life. The other leads straight to death, that is to
destruction--of those we influence as well as of
ourselves.

By grace we can receive the wounds of our friends as
our Master received them--in the strength and for the
glory of our heavenly Father. Being sinners ourselves,
however, we need to be brought low at the cross.
Nothing will do this better than some piercing
heart-wound, provided we seek Christ because of it and
pray Him to purify us.

There is another way--the world's way. It is anger,
resentment, retaliation, retreat into pride and
self-justification. These are quite natural, and quite
lethal. The choice is ours.

"The wound which is borne in God's way brings a change
of heart too salutary to regret, but the hurt which is
borne in the world's way brings death" (2 Cor 7:10 NEB).

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"No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his
love has been brought to full expression through us." 1 John 4:12

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