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Originally Posted by ILG
If you don't like the analogy, then you will need to write your own. Sometimes people get into such a bad wreck physically, they will be in pain for the rest of their lives and those who have broken an ankle and healed can judge the person for not doing as good of a job at healing as they did, but it doesn't matter. The person doing the judging is the one in the wrong. Some people, since they have only had a certain amount of emotional and spiritual pain, judge those who have had it beyond what they can even imagine. These people judge those who have healed but will have pain for the rest of their lives as not being as good and as spiritual as they are, adding to the pain they already bear. They hold themselves in high esteem, using scriptural platitudes to back up their high self-esteem.
At any rate, none of this matters. What matters is what one thinks and feels of themselves, if one can climb out of the rubble of stones thrown at them and around them.
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I'm not going to do a tit for tat on hurtful stories. I put them behind me and that's that. Sometimes I remember them, but I mainly remember what God taught me through them all - at least that is what my final focus is when a remembrance comes up.
All of the psychological story analogies have never done anything for me. It's like trying to find a story to suit the circumstance for my own benefit. It's just not enough. Never has been, never will be.
I want to know what the scriptures are telling me. I want to weigh my thoughts, my actions and my decisions by his Word. I've been through enough to know that He's going to take care of me.
"No weapon formed against me shall prosper." My view of that scripture is that I won't be destroyed. I have been in the place where I wanted people to KNOW and UNDERSTAND the dishonesty of the people who hurt me, but I didn't get it. What happened is that God took care of me and my family. That was the weapon that couldn't prosper against me.
I have some painful stories, but God has been too good to me to dwell there.