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Being Wounded & Our Response

Wounding is a natural course of life as people interact with people. We are delicate creatures, no matter how our physical strength governs our looks….. We are delicate and fragile.

When someone wounds us through words or even looks, our tendency is to completely pull out of relationship because we don’t want to deal with the situation. We do not want further pain.

I am a firm believer that the above solution is wrong. This is not how God intended relationship. We are to be vessels of love and continually offer reconciliation and a movement to restore any broken relationship, no matter the cost.  How you look should be the furthest thing from your mind, but binding back what has been broken needs to be at the forefront.

You know, how we react to problems dictates where we are really at! It shows our own relationship with God!! It reveals our true character!!! In order to pour out love and mercy, we must be in constant relationship with God - receiving love and mercy on a daily basis.  This transaction of love between the Creator and the creation is poured out to us and then through us to the world that He loves.  

By cultivating this daily, we are entering into the same relationship Jesus had with the Father.  Where love freely flows back and forth and trust is permanent, not desired.  You know who you are.  You now become a vessel of love and mercy just as Jesus did.

When you move in love and mercy, you finally realize justice is not revenge or an eminent punishment, but justice is that person receiving mercy, forgiveness and unconditional love. 

This is God’s brand of Justice.  It’s at the core of all He does and who He IS. …………   LOVE