Throwing Stones

It’s easy to pick up a stone and throw it at the person who is indeed or allegedly guilty. It’s easy to join in on the conversation with others and destroy someone’s character, someone’s name – join in on the he said-she said. It’s easy to be a bystander just soaking it all in.

All the while, no matter the role you played, active participant, silent bystander – you’ve picked up and thrown your stones.

I’ve been there before.

I’ve thrown stones, I’ve had stones thrown at me. I’ve picked up the stones thrown at me and thrown them back. I’m sad to say.

“So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” ‭‭John 8:7 KJV‬‬

None of us has any right to throw stones at anyone. This hit me a while back. I realized that in my hurt, I picked up the stones that someone had thrown at me, and hurled them right back at that person. I’m embarrassed to say, it took months for me to realize how wrong I was. It took months for me to apologize, seek forgiveness. It took months for me to forgive.

In the times that we live in, especially, we must be quick to forgive, quick to seek forgiveness. This is loving like Jesus. We don’t want to stay dead in our sins or for our love to wax cold. Now is definitely not the time. Now more than ever.

One of the easiest things to do is to pick up a stone and throw it. One of the hardest, yet most rewarding things to do, is to drop our stones and walk away.

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