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.
There's a lesson for judgment in this too. Job's friends were wrong because they 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.
For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
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.
There's a lesson for judgment in this too. Job's friends were wrong because they 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.