Each scar has its own story. The story of the wound ... Some scars are visible - they are outside, others inside. Our scars tell of our lives, but there are other, special marks. They tell a completely different story. A story that from beginning to end was a love story.
Preacher: Dmitry Blagochinkov
INTRODUCTION
Dance of Meresyev. Looking at these shots from the film "The Tale of a Real Man", it is impossible to imagine that the main character is ... a man without legs. In addition, he learned to fly a combat aircraft.
And if you think about it, it was they, the wounded people who returned to duty, who won a great victory in the great war. Now let's see how the prophet Jeremiah tried to cope with his wounds.
TEXT
Weeping Jeremiah 3: 18-20
18 And I said, My strength and my hope in the Lord perished.
19 I only remember suffering and wandering, in me there is only bitterness and bile (modern trans.)
20 My soul firmly remembers this and falls in me.
I. PEACE COMPLETE VIOLENCE ...
Physical (war, fights, robberies, traffic accidents, ...)
Sexual
Enslavement, human trafficking
Abandonment (newborns, loved ones, elderly parents; divorces)
Emotional
Verbal
How to get through this and live on? How to learn to dance without legs? Unfortunately, not everyone succeeds
II. RESPONSE TO VIOLENCE
1. Quote about a famous financier
Someone, having drunk the cup of grief, especially in the years of the formation of personality, closes in on himself.
Someone, having harbored anger at the world, is incinerated by this anger.
There is another, perhaps the most difficult way. With cold calculation, persistently rise from his knees, who in his own way avenged the world, which had rejected (you) in childhood and adolescence. ... (when all) actions are dictated by the desire to prove to the world that (you) are able to "turn mountains", despite the rules or taboos adopted in society.
And this is also the wrong motivation
2. Nature of injury
• distrust
• isolation
• fear (example with a dog bite)
• low self-esteem, victim complex
• anger
• tantrums
III. TIPS
1. Accept what happened, do not run away
2. "Burn out."
3. Do Not Revenge (Romans 12: 17-21)
• does not mean to agree that it was quite possible to do this with you
• film about a radio journalist
• the king’s child is offended - the king will take revenge
• One of the main spiritual realities is “not to take revenge” (save marriage is another)
4. Goodbye (John Paul II and the shooter)
5. don't blame yourself
6. bless the offenders (student, market place)
7. try to be at peace with everyone (if possible how much it depends on you)
8. Keep hope for the best
9. look for the pros
• experience and wisdom
• God is near
• the wound is healed
• new, real friends
• help is the same as you
10. CONQUER EVIL WITH GOOD - if you describe everything in one phrase, then this one.
The main victory of a wounded man, in this very thing, is to defeat evil with good and continue to live.
IV. EXAMPLE OF VICTORY OVER EVIL
Death of Christ
Jeremiah's victory
21 This is what I answer my heart, and therefore I trust:
22 by the grace of the Lord we did not disappear, for His mercy was not exhausted.
23 It is renewed every morning; Thy great faithfulness!
24 The Lord is my part, says my soul, so I will trust in Him.
25 The Lord is good to those who trust in him, to a soul who seeks him.
26 It is good to those who patiently wait for salvation from the Lord.
APPLICATION
1. Follow these tips
2. Pray for the healing of the soul
