Recognizing the Hidden Struggles and Humbling Ourselves
If your feet have never touched the battlefield, then you know nothing about the fight.You don’t know the traumas that people have lived through. The aches in the pit of their stomach that accompany them everywhere they go. The threads of passion and pain and guilt that are woven into their bodies.
You know nothing.
When you turn your nose up at someone who has committed a sin that you haven’t, know that if you had faced the same circumstances, temptations, or traumas as they have, you might have ended up a hundred times worse.
You proclaim judgment when you have no right to. You sneer at the choices of bruised and bloodied warriors on the battlefield while you’ve been sitting on the sidelines, untouched and unharmed.
Know that if you’ve been saved from a sin, it wasn’t you who saved yourself. It was The Most High who protected you.
And then know, too, that the person you see as “so sinful” might deeply connect to God on a level you will never understand.
Humble yourself. Take a seat. You know nothing.
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