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Mark Twain said, “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.
This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”
Twain was right.
You can care for a dog that has been abused.
You can love it.
You can nurture it.
You can feed it.
You can call it your own.
Despite the pain that this animal has endured and because of your love for it, this dog will become your best friend.
He will greet you at the door every day.
He will come when you call.
And he will be loyal to you until his dying day.
As true as this mutually sacrificial relationship is of dogs, it is not always true of human beings.
In fact, I believe the very people we love the most will hurt us the most.
We have to learn how to love like we’ve never been hurt.
Someone is going to break your heart.
Someone is going to abandon you or leave you.
Someone is going to say something hurtful to you.
Someone is going to disappoint you.
Someone is going to let you down, lie to you, stab you in the back.
Someone is going to reject you.
Whatever it is, you have loved hard and were wounded.
This someone has cut off your love supply.
And you are not living fully, the way God intended, because you do not know how, or if it is even possible, to love like you’ve never been hurt.
It’s easy to love others when we have no conflict with them.
Or when we share the same viewpoints.
Or the same theology.
Or the same standard.
It’s easy to love when marriage is in the honeymoon stage, when our children act right all the time, when we have our health and our happiness.
But no one lives in that kind of state all the time.
Jesus told us that in this world we would have trouble ().
In (NKJV), He even says, “Offenses must come.”
Getting hurt is part of life.
It’s inevitable.
But that is not the end of the story.
God does not want us to be the walking wounded.
He intended for us to be healed and to be whole.
He created us to love like we’ve never been hurt because that is what He does, and we are made in His image.
James Garfield had been the twentieth president of the United States for only four months when he was shot in the back on July 2, 1881, by a would-be assassin.
He lived just under three months more.
You would think it was the shot that killed him.
It wasn’t.
You see, the bullet did not penetrate any vital organs.
It got stuck behind his pancreas, but it was not a fatal injury.
But back then, doctors weren’t concerned about germs; they did not even believe they existed because they couldn’t see them.
So minutes after President Garfield was shot, doctors pressed in around him to stick their fingers and push unsterilized instruments into his wound.
They poked and prodded as far as they could in his body, hoping to find the bullet and remove it.
They continued to do this for eighty days while President Garfield languished in the hospital.
As we today would expect, this regular unsterilized digging worsened the president’s condition.
He developed infections and eventually died.
I find it fascinating that President Garfield did not succumb to death because of the bullet wound.
He died from the infections caused by doctors who kept probing the wound.
Funny—we tend to do this with our own wounds.
We replay the bad memories again and again.
We talk about them repeatedly to anyone who will listen.
We think of ways we can exact revenge.
We poke and prod at our gaping wounds.
In the process, we become bitter.
Hardened.
And, often, we withhold our love from those who need it most.
When we seek to love God, love ourselves and love others, we can learn to love despite what happened in the past.
We can mend brokenness that has plagued our families for generations.
In fact, Paul wrote in that we are to have a ministry of reconciliation (see verse 18).
If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, you are called to reconcile.
It is never wrong to love.
It is never out of order to love.
You do not compromise when you love.
You never lower your standards when you love.
ou never lower your standards when you love.
Do you remember when Jesus was asked what the greatest commandment was?
He replied, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’” ( NKJV).
What I learned was if you’re going through hell, don’t stop there.
Keep going ’til you get to the other side.
I have discovered that trouble is one of God’s great servants because it reminds us how much we continually need Him.
God is not put off by our struggles.
He says, I’ll help you.
I really will.
When you have gone as far as you can, you have just pulled up into God’s driveway.
When you are ready to throw up your hands, throw them up to Him.
Some moments change everything about you and your family for the rest of your life.
Whether loss, a betrayal, an addiction, an infidelity—without a doubt, these things affect the dynamics of our relationships.
But God creates all things new.
It is time to let Him give you a new beginning.
It is time to let God bind up your bruises and heal your wounds.
I love these words written by the ancient prophet:
If you let God heal your wounded places, your nights will become like days and your days will shine seven times brighter.
Think about this for a moment.
Do you want to be right or reconciled?
Do you want to be hurt or healed?
Do you want to keep being the victim or start becoming whole?
If you let God heal your wounded places, your nights will become like days and your days will shine seven times brighter.
Think about this for a moment.
Do you want to be right or reconciled?
Do you want to be hurt or healed?
Do you want to keep being the victim or start becoming whole?
The truth is, some things get broken and can never be put back exactly the same.
Yet God can make all things new.
If you will be willing to love like you’ve never been hurt, God can heal every broken relationship in your life.
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