The sting of hurt, the bruise of wordy wounds comes in many forms. You are more familiar with it than I had hoped. So am I. So as the tears etch themselves into my tired face eroding the last signs of strength, let me turn our gaze upward and remember Jesus. Resolve to remember Jesus.
When the hurt comes and steals your remaining breath, remember Jesus who was wounded with words yet gave up his last breath for you.
When you are falsely accused in little and in much, remember Jesus, the Sun of Righteousness, was called the prince of devils.
When your character is tarnished, you are misrepresented, and the support crumbles, remember Jesus was cursed to his face, but yet still knew every spiteful word uttered under every breath and formed in every mind.
When people leave, remember Jesus who was deserted by every. single. friend.
When you are unfairly portrayed, remember Jesus hung naked, beaten, and bloody as public humiliation.
When your heart breaks and your bawling eyes swell, remember Jesus' full humanity that felt every sting, strain, and suffering on your behalf.
When stunned silence is the only response you can manage, remember Jesus, the silent Lamb led to slaughter.
Jesus Christ is making all things new. One day that will be complete. That is a promise.
Jesus said that he will repay every word spoken, texted, written, shared, mailed. You keep walking in love. Remember Jesus.
Jesus holds forgiveness in his hands, uttering in his last moment, "Father, forgive them. They do not know what they are doing." A moment of anguish, pain unimaginable, deserted. You, reader, are forgiven much. And perhaps those that have hurt you don't know what they are doing either. We know what it's like on both ends of the stick. So, looking to Christ, you forgive much.
Remember Jesus
When it hurts; when you are maligned, rejected, despised unjustly, remember Jesus.
Cry deeply. And look to the surpassing treasure of Jesus Christ. Remember your Savior, ravaged and then resurrected, in your place.
"If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all."
Romans 12:18
Remember Jesus.
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