“If you would tell me, tell me true,” a wise old man once said. “There isn’t time enough for lies.”
And when we’ve polished all our trophies, and sung again our victory songs, we come at last to stories too painful to be false. Each honest story unwraps our wounds, our hurts—as well as those we’ve given.
We grieve the loved ones whom we’ve lost—a spouse; a friend; a much-loved child—though some of them still live and breathe. We mourn the loss of innocence; we’ve soaked up toxic sums of greed. We laugh at violence and war; we cheer for “heroes” who display our poorest human qualities. We feel the sadness for what’s never fixed or mended or repaired.
And so it’s not an accident that we know more of Jesus as a healer than any other role. He stepped into the broken story of our world with grace that made the lepers dance and unlocked tongues that never spoke. He gave the parents back lost children; He cast out evil spirits and refashioned sin-sick attitudes. He told us of a Father who kindly waits for us to finish playing prodigal.
And when He died to heal us of our greatest hurt, He took our pain and made it His. “He was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon Him was the punishment that made us whole, and by His bruises we are healed” (Isa 53:5-6).
The good news is that grace still heals. It closes wounds; it soothes our scars. And someday soon, it leads us home.
So stay in grace. -Bill Knott
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INCREASING YOUR NET WORTH (February 28, 2020)
FIRST LIGHT (February 21, 2020)
THE STRUGGLE TO FORGIVE (February 14, 2020)
THE PACE OF GRACE (February 7, 2020)
A PLACE AT THE TABLE (January 31, 2020)
THE BEST NEWS (January 24, 2020)
LEARNING TO WALK AGAIN (January 17, 2020)
A PSALM OF GRACE (January 10, 2020)
A COVENANT FOR WANDERERS (January 3, 2020)
WALKING ACROSS THE LINE (December 27, 2019)
DELIVERED INTO LIGHT (December 20, 2019)
NOT JUST DECEMBER 25 (December 13, 2019)
NO STRINGS ATTACHED (December 6, 2019)
FULLY IDENTIFIED (November 29,2019)
GRACE AT THE GATES (November 22, 2019)
THE END OF MAGIC (November 15, 2019)
CAN YOU HANDLE THE TRUTH? (November 8, 2019)
MORE DAY TO DAWN (November 1, 2019)
CROSS PURPOSES (October 25, 2019)
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