GM

This is true:

The human heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. The sheer level of depravity in each of us would shock whoever had a full glimpse of it. No one is righteous, no not one.

This is also true:

We should reject cynicism and resist always assuming the worst intentions in other people. Give others the benefit of the doubt until you have good reason to do otherwise. Don't take yourself too seriously. Don't treat others too flippantly.

It is hard to hold these two sides of reality in tandem but wisdom and healthy relationships require it.

#grownostr #gm

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Never underestimate Jesus' common grace, Brother...

You actually see it operative in the majority of the population.🌞😃

"The true Light which gives-light-to every person was coming into the world."

- John 1:9

Yes. This is one of the reasons to not assume malicious intentions in others and to show others grace. Our Lord showed us grace and, despite the evil that still emerges in us and others, he so often withholds each of us from being as wicked as we could be when left to our own devices.

Also why we don't need nation-states tyrannizing us.😃

https://peakd.com/library/@creatr/the-kingdom-of-jesus-god-the-heavens-my-library-shelf

Gm. You’re quickly becoming one of my favorite npubs in this place. Well done🫡

GM!

"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare.

All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations.

It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics.

There are no ordinary people.

You have never talked to a mere mortal.

Nations, cultures, arts, civilization—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit—immortal horrors or everlasting splendors."

C. S. Lewis

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#ToChristAlone #grownostr

also true: we see the image of God in every human, tarnished though it may be