Watch this video and then we’ll talk.
This new song from Kelly Clarkson says a lot, and seeing children and staff from Seattle Children’s Hospital perform it makes it say even more.
The original quote is from Friedrich Nietzsche:
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
For those of you who don’t know Nietzsche also coined the phrase, “God is dead,” despised Christianity, was Adolf Hitler’s favorite philosopher because of his belief that man can become superman if his teachings were followed. For more on his life and pathetic death go here.
But just because the man was an enemy of the Cross doesn’t mean he couldn’t stumble across the truth every once in a while. I believe what he said can be true, but only if we choose to make it that way.
Sadly the road Clarkson offers in the song isn’t the road to real strength at all, although Nietzsche would have approved. The song speaks of thinking of yourself, focusing on self is the road to recovery. At this stage that’s exactly what you’d expect our self-centered culture to say, because today self is the answer to everything.
It’s also a lie, and the road to slavery not to real freedom. The only way to really be free of those who’ve hurt you is to get your focus off yourself and onto Jesus and His plan for your life. Thinking of self only leads us to self pity or revenge. Both of those weaken and destroy those who choose them.
Believe me, it’s a choice, and it’s a choice you have to make many times every day if, like me, you are in the process of trying to make a new start to your life after a huge set back.
So choose forgiveness, choose Biblical separation from those who hurt you if they refuse to repent, and above all choose Jesus and the strength that only he can give.








Okay, so the title just about says it all I guess. I loved this movie!