A Rude Awakening For Those Who Call Themselves Christian

Francis of Assisi, a thirteenth-century Catholic Italian monk, wrote of the person lesson in humility to be gathered from another person's offense.

Whom are we to count as our 'friends'? All those whose unjust actions and words cause us all manner of grief and trial...

How can I suggest that you should greatly love such people?

For this reason: Their evil actions draw out and display to us our own evil responses-anger, gossip, slander, hatred and the like. Then we see our sin for what it is. And only then can we repent and forsake it. 

Awwe snap!!!


Francis, ., & Hazard, D. (1992). A day in Your presence: A 40-day journey in the company of Francis of Assisi : devotional readings. Minneapolis, Minn: Bethany House Publishers, page 86.