"Battle Scars"

"Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them."
(Psalms 106:29)

 You might wonder by now if this is really all that necessary, or do we really need to even know all  the details of how people sink to such low levels. If there is one thing that I have noticed by being in leadership within the church, it is that people really do not know what they are capable of doing to each other, and how hard that their hearts can really be towards one another; it just happens, and when it does, they simply cannot stand to admit that they are wrong. Looking at this from God's point of view, the plague is a good thing, especially for them who cannot admit that they need to be cleansed. It does two very important things within the body of Christ, it shows those who are wrong that they are indeed wrong, and it makes others see that they are a bad example to follow. If you want to see it in another light, you could look at it from the foot of the cross. (This is where I start loosing it.) If you have ever wondered why Jesus needed to be torn up as bad as He was, then you needn't look much further than the hardness of the human heart. The heart can be so hard and cruel, it is almost beyond recognition. God sees our hearts, always; even though we cannot see the bitterness and the hatred that is stored up inside it, God always does. If you want to know why Jesus was made almost unrecognizable, then there is your answer. (Jesus, please help us to love!) I'm sorry, but I just had to burst out and say that, because the thought of all He took on in our place is just too overwhelming. There was really nothing that He did not accomplish at the cross; no sin that was not dealt with, no issue of the heart that was not made new; each and every issue of the human heart was placed upon Him, each and every sin, was marked on Him...

"That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him." But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God's deep secrets. No one can know a person's thoughts except that person's own spirit, and no one can know God's thoughts except God's own Spirit. And we have received God's Spirit (not the world's spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us." (1 Corinthians 2:9-12) NLT