Current Events: Born in Woundedness

Posted on January 9, 2024 by LovingLikeGod.com

Wounded and Wounding
There are essentially two kinds of woundedness: human woundedness, and Divine woundedness. “The mark of Cain” was placed on the first of the wounding. Cain was an older brother displaced by a younger one. Beginning with Hagar and Ishmael, Islam was born in woundedness, (rejection).  The perspective, understanding, and conversation of woundedness is easily detected by the discerning ear. Human wounding is the fruit of its own fallenness. Kingdoms born of human wounding make bad choices – choices that take us down rather than raise us up.

The Kingdom of God is born of Divine wounding. The difference is that The King was,

“… pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.” – Isaiah 53:5, 6

One more observation: All religion rooted in law rather than ‘loving like God’ is wounded and wounding. When Christianity “forgot the height from which it had fallen,” it too became wounded and wounding. Revelation 2:5

By Jay Ferris

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When Love Got Redefined

Posted on January 2, 2024 by LovingLikeGod.com

water and fire split
“Loving like God” is another way of putting something Jesus said: “As I have loved you…”

Romans 5 is perhaps the clearest statement in the scripture as to just how He loved us. Elsewhere we are told, “This is how we know what love is, Jesus Christ laid down his life for us…”.  Romans 5 tells us under what circumstances He did that:

“You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.  Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.  But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.  Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!  For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!” Verses 6-10 

Jesus Christ laid down His life for his enemies. That’s the measureless love of God. Before His death He made a statement about the greatest love known to man up to the point of His death.

“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”  John 15:13 

Viewed from the language of a patent examiner, that would be called “the state of the art.” That was “as good as it gets” before Jesus laid down His life. Jesus redefined love at the Cross. Anything short of this redefined love is unworkable, and unsatisfactory for building His Church.

-By Jay Ferris

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Welcome to the first day of new focus!

Posted on December 29, 2023 by LovingLikeGod.com

Dear Readers,

The first sentence Jay Ferris wrote on LovingLikeGod.com was at the start of 2011.

It was:

  • Welcome to the first day of new focus!

After that, (until the Lord took him home in 2013) he posted regularly and mostly on two revelations he received in the 30+ years of walking with Christ.

These two revelations were:

  • God’s kind of love (i.e. the love that is ‘good for enemies,’ Romans 5:10)
  • Relationships that come from God

To this day these truths are bedrock, unshakeable, and still shining bright.

WE are actually what shakes, if anything. Unexpected storms and temptations can push us off course, causing us to lose our way, and cry out for help.

Lately I’ve had some “course corrects” myself. And one of the most important things I’m convicted of is the need to refocus on God’s Word, and the things that never shake. 

So with that said, I want to announce that in 2024 there will be a lot more postings here. My goal is to reread and repost an article by Jay every week that pertains to the two revelations above. I’ll aim for Tuesdays (because we’re Tuesday people, of course!¹), will sometimes add personal comments (below the posts), and throw in some unrelated or previously unpublished pieces to spice things up. 

That’s all for now! I invite you to join me on this new journey of refocus, add your own comments to the articles, and if they blessed you…please share them with friends.

In Love,

Pamela 


(1) See comments below for an explanation. 😉

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