Welcome to the Daily Blade.

The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil.

Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight.

Let's sharpen up.

When you hear the words, grace, what comes to mind? Well, what I want to do is I want to

walk us through the miracle of grace. And specifically, in this devotional, it's that grace

that loves. It's becoming a neighbor in a wounded world. Grace that loves by becoming a neighbor

in a wounded world. Two thousand years ago, Jesus was having a conversation with a religious leader,

and the religious leader wanted to show that Jesus was a fraud, which number one, that's a bad

idea. He was the truest of all

that is true, God incarnate. And the religious leader said, well, what's the most important

commandment? And Jesus, of course, the author of the scripture, the liver of the scripture,

said it's to love God with all your heart, my soul, and strength, and to love your neighbor

as you love yourself. And the religious leader said, well, who exactly is my neighbor? And Jesus being as epic and as

beautiful as he is, says, okay, let me show you who your neighbor is. Now, let me pause.

For a Jewish man of that time, his neighbor instinctively would have been another Jew.

No way it could have been a Gentile because the Gentiles had caused great harm to the Jews for centuries.

And so he was living in the trauma of hurt, a collective trauma.

And Jesus comes into that trauma and the gospel drama begins to open his eyes to what love is.

We don't have to stay hurt.

We can actually become wounded healers.

So number one, grace crosses the road.

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