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Oswald pointed out something today, I've been thinking about for the last several weeks...

"Jesus did not commit Himself to them...for He knew what was in man." John 2:24-25

"Many of the cruel things in life spring from the fact that we suffer from illusions. We are not true to one another as facts; we are true only to our ideas of one another...The refusal to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering in human life. It works this way - if we love a human being and do not love God, we demand of him every perfection and every rectitude, and when we do not get it we become cruel and vindictive; we are demanding of a human being that which he or she cannot give. There is only one Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ."