“You can easily enough see how this kind of thing works by looking no further than your own body. Your body has many parts—limbs, organs, cells—but no matter how many parts you can name, you’re still one body.” – 1 Cor 12:12 MSG
Yesterday I talked about how it's important to realise that we are all connected. When you start to see life through this lens you will actually see others through the ‘eyes of God'. Your “compassion-ator” gets turned up and you realise that when people hurt you, or others, that it's not actually personal, but a reflection of the hurt they've faced in their own life. Revenge and and an ‘eye-for-an-eye' mentality ends up in the whole body becoming mutilated and damaged. The whole body in which you and I are part of. That's why Jesus says “turn the other cheek” and 1 Peter 3:9 says “Don't repay evil for evil. Don't retaliate with insults when people insult you. Instead, pay them back with a blessing…” When a wounded part of our body starts hurting we don't retaliate by inflicting pain back on that section. No we bandage it. We nurse it. We aid it's recovery for the sake of the whole body. In the same way, when someone you deal with is hurting people out of their own wounds and pain, our response should be to nurse them back to health with love and kindness. With blessing, prayer and kind words. That part of the body (read ‘person') needs some healing and in our own health we can provide it. Today our challenge is to be a healer not a hurter. Recognise your own hurt and do your best not to hurt others from it. Recognise others hurt and do your best to add to their healing. We love you and know your best days are ahead!
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