“The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the
same scales.”
–Aesop
How many times have you shared a hurt or injury only to
have the person respond with a listing of his or her own hurts as though it
were some kind of competition? Often, we too unconsciously respond this way with
the hope of making a connection or lessening the pain of the person sharing
with us. What can happen is this problem of trying to weigh the severity of another’s
injury with our own on a scale falsely weighted by our own emotional
involvement.
Our compassion, mercy and forgiveness should never include
a competition to see who has suffered more. Scripture consistently shows us
that we reap what we sew and are measured by the same measurement we use with
others.
May God help us all to abound in compassion without a need
for prove anything to any one beyond the loving power of the Holy Ghost within
us.
“Judge
not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be
judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” Matthew 7:1-2
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| The Double Ride by Francis Wallace |
