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July 30, 2008
THE DISCIPLINE OF DISILLUSIONMENT
Jesus did not commit Himself unto them for He knew what
was in man.
John 2:24-25
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=joh+2:24-25&sr=1
Disillusionment means that there are no more false judgments in life.
To be undeceived by disillusionment may leave us cynical and unkindly
severe in our judgment of others, but the disillusionment which comes
from God brings us to the place where we see men and women as they
really are, and yet there is no cynicism, we have no stinging, bitter
things to say. Many of the cruel things in life spring from the fact
that we suffer from illusions. We are not true to one another as
facts; we are true only to our ideas of one another. Everything is
either delightful and fine, or mean and dastardly, according to our
idea.
The refusal to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering
in human life. It works in this way - if we love a human being and do
not love God, we demand of him every perfection and every rectitude,
and when we do not get it we become cruel and vindictive; we are
demanding of a human being that which he or she cannot give. There is
only one Being Who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human
heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. Why Our Lord is apparently
so severe regarding every human relationship is because He knows that
every relationship not based on loyalty to Himself will end in
disaster. Our Lord trusted no man, yet He was never suspicious, never
bitter. Our Lord's confidence in God and in what His grace could do
for any man, was so perfect that He despaired of no one. If our trust
is placed in human beings, we shall end in despairing of everyone.
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