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I saw some violence that shook me pretty deep. It made feel sick to my stomach and dizzy because it was all too what i expected to see but didn't want to.
There is something about graphic violene that is so viceral. I shakes us and cuts us to the core. Its so not supposed to happen. To actually see someone willfully and intentionally hurt someone very badly is all so disturbing. I can't imagine what someone must have to think inside to just outright harm someone for very little reason.
Seeing a violent fight makes me feel helpless and like no one is around that can help. Initially I feel like there really is no God, because there is no imediate force stopping the violence. I better understand how someone who grew up in a violent part of the earth where injustice and outright malice is rampent, can truely belive that there is no one but themselves to look after them. The sad truth is that kind of life exists everywhere, even in the US and Canada. Inner city life is so different than my own. I feel my shelteredness has been exposed wide open, I am naked in my innocence.
I step back, though, after the shock settles and realize that God sees far worse, sees it all, all over the globe , all at the same time. Oh how his heart must grieve. That does comfort me though, knowing that God is not shocked by such violence nor is he frightened or surprised by any of it. Man has not let up in his violent life style since the fall. I too have felt the desire to harm others and can probably imagine a situation where I would kill, but I pray that situation never comes, or that God's grace would grant me the restraint and patience.
Knowing God can handle violence and does, even when I don't even think about it, comforts me. I know that He far surpasses my biggest problem, fear, situation. I now know more deeply his sufficiency in all things, and for all things in my life. HALELUJAH!!!! Praise be to The ONE!!!
There is something about graphic violene that is so viceral. I shakes us and cuts us to the core. Its so not supposed to happen. To actually see someone willfully and intentionally hurt someone very badly is all so disturbing. I can't imagine what someone must have to think inside to just outright harm someone for very little reason.
Seeing a violent fight makes me feel helpless and like no one is around that can help. Initially I feel like there really is no God, because there is no imediate force stopping the violence. I better understand how someone who grew up in a violent part of the earth where injustice and outright malice is rampent, can truely belive that there is no one but themselves to look after them. The sad truth is that kind of life exists everywhere, even in the US and Canada. Inner city life is so different than my own. I feel my shelteredness has been exposed wide open, I am naked in my innocence.
I step back, though, after the shock settles and realize that God sees far worse, sees it all, all over the globe , all at the same time. Oh how his heart must grieve. That does comfort me though, knowing that God is not shocked by such violence nor is he frightened or surprised by any of it. Man has not let up in his violent life style since the fall. I too have felt the desire to harm others and can probably imagine a situation where I would kill, but I pray that situation never comes, or that God's grace would grant me the restraint and patience.
Knowing God can handle violence and does, even when I don't even think about it, comforts me. I know that He far surpasses my biggest problem, fear, situation. I now know more deeply his sufficiency in all things, and for all things in my life. HALELUJAH!!!! Praise be to The ONE!!!
posted by Jason at 7:59 PM
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I also hate violence. There's something about it I can't take. I think my mind can't accept that someone is being hurt for really no good reason. Movies, even books, it makes me cringe and I try to avoid those parts.
yeah, for me it always real violence that shakes me most. I don't like a lot a violence in movies but i can tolerate it cause I know its fake. But its the real life stuff that bothers me.
hey jason, i think this sentance of yours:
"There is something about graphic violene that is so viceral. I shakes us and cuts us to the core. Its so not supposed to happen."
is brilliant. really. and it made me think about the passion movie, because it changed how i was aware of Christ's sacrifice. i could have heard about it millions more times, yet never understood it as i do now because i saw it so graphically, "it shakes us and cuts us to the core. Its so not supposed to happen"
Thank You! I'm glad. That is the feeling I have/had put directly into words. It is how it affects me exactly.
yeah, the Passion certainly fits into that catagory for me too.
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