Oct 2015
if someone has faults, it's impossible to be angry at them
once you realize those faults stem from brokenness
and that it's not a whole person yelling at you
or manipulating someone, it's not a whole person that
forgot you or stopped loving you, it's not a whole person
that looks past you or laughs behind your back, it's not a whole
person that is proud or sarcastic or spiteful or unreasonable, it's not a
whole person that abandons someone they once loved, it's not
a whole person that can hardly feel love at all and doesn't know why, it's
not a whole person that steps on the hurting and the downtrodden,
it's not a whole person that is apathetic and bitter and lost.
it's a broken person, someone who needs healing. They aren't
complete in themselves and choosing evil anyway, from a developed place.
They are broken, they are beaten down, there are chasms in their soul,
addictions and sadness and pieces left for dead. They are not choosing
of their own perfectly free will, because they are enslaved,
enchained by their own fear. It's not their fault. They are broken.
Forgive them, heal them, love them. A whole person, once healed
is a truly free person. And then, only then, will we know who they
(these people we once ****** in our hearts) really are.
once you realize those faults stem from brokenness
and that it's not a whole person yelling at you
or manipulating someone, it's not a whole person that
forgot you or stopped loving you, it's not a whole person
that looks past you or laughs behind your back, it's not a whole
person that is proud or sarcastic or spiteful or unreasonable, it's not a
whole person that abandons someone they once loved, it's not
a whole person that can hardly feel love at all and doesn't know why, it's
not a whole person that steps on the hurting and the downtrodden,
it's not a whole person that is apathetic and bitter and lost.
it's a broken person, someone who needs healing. They aren't
complete in themselves and choosing evil anyway, from a developed place.
They are broken, they are beaten down, there are chasms in their soul,
addictions and sadness and pieces left for dead. They are not choosing
of their own perfectly free will, because they are enslaved,
enchained by their own fear. It's not their fault. They are broken.
Forgive them, heal them, love them. A whole person, once healed
is a truly free person. And then, only then, will we know who they
(these people we once ****** in our hearts) really are.
thinking about the nature of sin.
"14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it."
"14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it."
