Christ Centered Recovery Network

Though they loudly claim to embrace both the Golden Rule and Jesus’ command to love others as they love themselves, tens of millions of Americans are incapable of asking (or simply refuse to ask) a seemingly elemental question undergirding both:
“What is it like to be someone else”?

*John Pavlovitz

Wherefore the evils cleaved unto us, and the curse, which the Lord appointed by Moses his servant at the time that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that floweth with milk and honey, like as it is to see this day. Nevertheless we have not hearkened unto the voice of the Lord our God, according unto all the words of the prophets, whom he sent unto us: but every man followed the imagination of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the Lord our God.
‭‭- Baruch‬ ‭1‬:‭20‬-‭22

Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
‭‭- Jeremiah‬ ‭10‬:‭6‬-‭7‬ ‭

Jeremiah 10:6-7 (KJVAAE) - Forasmuch as there is none like unt | YouVersion Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the

Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place. For we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: to the one we are the savor of death unto death; and to the other the savor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
‭‭- 2 Corinthians‬ ‭2‬:‭14‬-‭17‬ ‭