Strength And Those Who Feel Hurt

If a person admires strength for good reasons, they won't also look down on someone when they feel weak and hurt.

In fact, if it is the good in you that loves strength, that same good will also love someone in their weakness and time of hurting.  

Christians,

When you respect strength for the right reasons, it is the good inside you that is the reason.  However, if you also look down on someone who is struggling, hurt, and timid, then you’re also probably valuing strength in the wrong way.  Separately, there are situations where a person who won’t even try to help themselves or others, and that is weakness in the bad sense, but a Christian certainly shouldn’t think it a bad thing to see someone trying to hold their chin up who can’t hold back some tears.  There are also plenty of cases where it is good to let someone just cry freely. 

In fact, if it is the good in you that loves strength, that same good will also love someone in their weakness and time of hurting.  Strength in the good sense often involves standing up for someone who needs help when circumstances make it difficult to do so. So, if someone admires strength while looking contemptuously on people who need help, they really don’t admire strength in terms of Christian virtue.

It is important to understand this because it can be confusing to understand situations where someone seems to admire strength like you do, but then says something terrible about someone who looks like they are hurting.  Knowing real strength helps you clarify that admiring strength shouldn’t interfere with helping others.  It helps you clarify your understanding of what you likely already feel and also helps you teach others about it.