Milk Without Cookies

I got a phone call today from a good friend who gave me very good news about someone who I thought hated me for telling her the truth. At first she hated me, and I couldn't handle it, so I ran away too. But it sounds like that truth is getting to her now, and she is opening her heart just a little.

When the Bible is said to be a double-edged sword, it sounds like the truth will attack you violently. In a way, it does. The truth of God is RADICAL, and can rock you to your core.

The cutting edge of His Word can be painful if you fight it, but I think that when you let it work, the Word cuts like a scalpel in the gentle hand of a surgeon, who leaves behind a scar to remind you of the cancer that once rotted your soul, and of the God who loves you and couldn't let you die.