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Renovaré: Hurt vs. Harmed
By daniel | February 21, 2006
From the Renovaré website:
QUESTION: Explain to me the difference between being hurt while not being harmed?
ANSWER: Spiritual people are of all people most susceptible to being hurt. This is because we are indeed the meek of the earth. We have turned away from the normal human means of protection: attack first, destroy your enemy before they destroy you, manipulate people and circumstances with power, money, position, etc. Instead, we trust ourselves to the protection, care, and goodness of God. (This in no way precludes ordinary precaution in life.) As a result we are often hurt: taken advantage of, stolen from, deprived, killed. But we are never harmed. We know that there is more to the story than human history. We know there is an eternal Story and even in this life we catch a glimpse of holy history, the Story behind the story. In that eternal Story the people of God are perfectly situated in the hollow of God's hand and no ultimate harm can come to us. The John of Revelation got a whole eye-full of that eternal Story, and tells us that the Lord God will be our light and that we will reign with him "forever and ever" (Rev. 22:5).
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