When the Wound Comes from a Friend.
Psalms 55 — The psalm that names exactly what betrayal feels like
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📢 Chapter 55 — When the Wound Comes from a Friend 💔
There's a kind of pain that enemies can't inflict. An enemy hurts you from the outside — you brace for it, you see it coming, and eventually you recover. But when the person who sat next to you, who knew your fears and your , who walked into beside you — when that person turns on you? That's a different wound entirely.
55 is at his most raw. He's afraid, he's overwhelmed, he wants to run. But buried in the middle of this desperate is an unflinchingly honest description of betrayal — and at the end, a that has been holding people together for three thousand years.