I speed read ninety percent of everything I come across and 2x all podcasts. This content arrested me and held my heart like a chain that forced me to slowly feel the weight of such loss. Thank you Michael. This is a good reminder to keep in mind when I see others suffer.
There's a lesson for judgment in this too. Job's friends were wrong because what may have been right in another context didn't apply. A misbehaving child is often a lack of discipline, but not always. In a culture that has rejected innocent until proven guilty, Christians have often embraced the same culture under the language of "you shall know them by their fruits." In correcting "judge not," we threw the baby out with the bathwater.
To my friends and fellow believers that I see face-to-face I am known to be a very provocative and long-winded speaker. Always having something to say whether it is right or wrong. And yet every time I hear of tragedy striking one of my friends who I consider to be light years more faithful and holy than myself, I can't help but respond with the monosyllabled powerful word f*** without any qualification or additional syllables or words. I have been a believer for about 15 years and have yet to find better words than that one word in isolation to best Express my sympathy for the tragedy that my friends have to now live around.
This is so true. You cannot actually know someone’s pain until you’ve lived through the same pain. When we lost our home and town in the paradise campfire fire of 2018, we could connect with others who also lost in the fire on a profoundly deep level. The trauma we suffered, and at times still do, was incredibly unique in that those who didn’t go through it had no idea what we were experiencing and it was almost impossible to even explain it. It’s like the marines 😂 you have a special connection with those you suffered the same thing alongside hand in hand. Outsiders don’t get it and they never will. It’s just not possible.
Excellent, clear and practical. Thank you, Michael.
I speed read ninety percent of everything I come across and 2x all podcasts. This content arrested me and held my heart like a chain that forced me to slowly feel the weight of such loss. Thank you Michael. This is a good reminder to keep in mind when I see others suffer.
For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
There's a lesson for judgment in this too. Job's friends were wrong because what may have been right in another context didn't apply. A misbehaving child is often a lack of discipline, but not always. In a culture that has rejected innocent until proven guilty, Christians have often embraced the same culture under the language of "you shall know them by their fruits." In correcting "judge not," we threw the baby out with the bathwater.
To my friends and fellow believers that I see face-to-face I am known to be a very provocative and long-winded speaker. Always having something to say whether it is right or wrong. And yet every time I hear of tragedy striking one of my friends who I consider to be light years more faithful and holy than myself, I can't help but respond with the monosyllabled powerful word f*** without any qualification or additional syllables or words. I have been a believer for about 15 years and have yet to find better words than that one word in isolation to best Express my sympathy for the tragedy that my friends have to now live around.
Thank you for sharing this Michael. It was a great encouragement to me.
This is so true. You cannot actually know someone’s pain until you’ve lived through the same pain. When we lost our home and town in the paradise campfire fire of 2018, we could connect with others who also lost in the fire on a profoundly deep level. The trauma we suffered, and at times still do, was incredibly unique in that those who didn’t go through it had no idea what we were experiencing and it was almost impossible to even explain it. It’s like the marines 😂 you have a special connection with those you suffered the same thing alongside hand in hand. Outsiders don’t get it and they never will. It’s just not possible.