As John Carter Cash observed about his father, “My dad identified with the Old Testament character of Job, who lost all. Dad was also familiar with suffering. . . . Like Job, I believe Dad never cursed God, but rather came to accept his burden as best a human could.”[13] We’re attracted to the image of the rebel because it makes us feel powerful and confident. But the gospel according to “Hurt” is that we are closest to God when we are at our weakest. Here we find the deep rebellion at the heart of the kingdom of God. Nothing attracts us to suffering. Nothing draws us to those places where we
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