God’s predetermined plan includes judgment in our lives. He uses the selfishness and brokenness of others to wound us; it isthe only way to break through the sin of Adam which has hardened the heart of all humanity against God. It is how He wakes us to our need for Him. Our wounding is used by God to help us realize that despite our armor, we cannot prevent ourselves from being wounded by others, and we cannot control the outcomes of our lives. We are on a journey of surrender to God’s control over our lives. God wounds us and inflicts pain. We either turn to Him and learn to rest in Him, or we turn from Him and give ourselves to the ME, to the world, to the spiritual forces of wickedness, or to some twisted semblance of Him in the form of idolatrous religion ruled by the Woman whoRides the Beast.
