Filtering Through Pain
One of the hardest things I’ve had to learn is how to filter my pain through truth instead of filtering truth through my pain.
See, as humans when we’re hurting we often let our pain color our perception of things, people, and actions around us.
We don’t do it on purpose.
It’s that the pain is there and present and in the forefront of our minds so we tend to lead with that and to perceive things from that perspective.
Whether we’ve been disrespected, lied to, betrayed, stolen from, or experienced any other kind of pain, we tend to see others’ actions as potential for that event to be happening again, even when it’s not.
We assume (sometimes without realizing it) that because a person from our past did us wrong this person will, too.
Unfortunately, when we’re expecting and looking for something we tend to see it, whether it’s there or not.
God calls us to a higher standard than that.
Instead of filtering our life experiences through our pain, He calls us to filter them through His Word and Truth.
Regardless of how we feel or what we have experienced, we have to put the truth of Scripture first and foremost in our minds and operate according to it and what it says.
That can be hard.