I understand about humility and Biblically strong meekness and this generation.
I don't mean by "life is a contact sport" that it's all Sparticus etc.
I mean that in the rough and tumble of REAL LIFE NOT CRINGED AND SHRUNK BACK FROM
THERE IS REAL CONTACT--some of it is negative and some of it is positive--but it is REAL--it is not phony.
And because it is real, LIFE CAN COME even of the bruises and bloodshed.
FAITHFUL ARE THE WOUNDS OF A FRIEND but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. I have found that emphatically true.
It does NOT say, faithful are the gentle carresses of a friend--faithful are the WOUNDS of a friend. That's serious business from life as a contact sport--from living vs cringing from living.
Scripture says that cowards are as lost as homosexuals.
Cringing, whining, wailing, blaming and throwing dust in the air comes more from cringing from life instead of wading into it as the contact sport that it is. I know. I did it several decades.
Some see a certain someone hereon as the most humble person they've ever met and some see him as one of the most arrogant. Same person. Same evidence observed by both . . . why the difference?
“Same person. Same evidence observed by both...why the difference”?
All that tells me is that we have been told to judge not and for a good reason.
It also tells me that a judgment could be arrived at due to a process called projection.