{"id":2232,"date":"2009-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/contentfeeds\/2009\/02\/bill-hybels-day-7-above-my-pai-1.html"},"modified":"2009-02-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T00:00:00","slug":"bill-hybels-day-7-above-my-pai-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2009\/02\/bill-hybels-day-7-above-my-pai-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill Hybels Day 7: Above My Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Welcome back to Beliefnet&#8217;s exclusive Bill Hybels devotional, &#8220;Living with Grander Vision.&#8221; This feed will appear in your profile every day for three full weeks. Did you miss any entries? Just stay subscribed, and the feed will begin again at the end of its cycle. <\/strong><br \/>\nBetrayed.<br \/>\nHumiliated.<br \/>\nStripped.<br \/>\nMocked.<br \/>\nSpat on.<br \/>\nDespised.<br \/>\nNeglected.<br \/>\nAbandoned.<br \/>\nGrief-stricken.<br \/>\nSubdued.<br \/>\nNailed.<br \/>\nBartered.<br \/>\nIndicted.<br \/>\nWounded.<br \/>\nAbused.<br \/>\nRipped to shreds.<br \/>\nKilled.<br \/>\nJesus knew pain.<br \/>\nIn the center of the worst of it, though, he refused to wallow.<br \/>\nHe insisted on putting other people first.<br \/>\n<i>They don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re doing, <\/i>he told his Father in heaven. <i>Forgive them, won&#8217;t you?<br \/>\nI am doing so now. Even while they ridicule me, I will serve them with all that I have, all that I am.<\/i><br \/>\n___<br \/>\nHow determined are you<br \/>\nto love<br \/>\nto accept<br \/>\nto embrace<br \/>\nto forgive<br \/>\nthe ones least likely to warrant it, right in the midst of your worst, worst pain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to Beliefnet&#8217;s exclusive Bill Hybels devotional, &#8220;Living with Grander Vision.&#8221; This feed will appear in your profile every day for three full weeks. Did you miss any entries? Just stay subscribed, and the feed will begin again at the end of its cycle. Betrayed. Humiliated. Stripped. Mocked. Spat on. Despised. Neglected. Abandoned. 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