So many hurts.\u00a0 When teachers ignore your work, their neglect hurts. When your girlfriend drops you, when your husband abandons you, when the company fires you, it hurts.\u00a0 Rejection always does.\u00a0 People bring pain.
\nSometimes deliberately.\u00a0 Sometimes randomly.
\nSo where do you turn?\u00a0 Hitman.com?\u00a0 Jim Beam and friends?\u00a0 Pity Party Catering Service?\u00a0 Retaliation has its appeal.\u00a0 But Jesus has a better idea!
\nGrace is not blind.\u00a0 It sees the hurt full well.\u00a0 But Grace chooses to see God\u2019s forgiveness even more.\u00a0 Hebrews 12:15 asks us to, \u201cSee to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.\u201d
\nWhere grace is lacking, bitterness abounds.\u00a0 Where grace abounds,\u00a0 forgiveness grows.\u00a0 Forgiveness may not happen all at once.\u00a0 But it can happen with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So many hurts.\u00a0 When teachers ignore your work, their neglect hurts. When your girlfriend drops you, when your husband abandons you, when the company fires you, it hurts.\u00a0 Rejection always does.\u00a0 People bring pain. Sometimes deliberately.\u00a0 Sometimes randomly. So where … Continue reading