The pure gospel gives a deep peace that grows in a heart that has been delivered from the subliminal fear that shadows us all our lives.
But sometimes an inner volcano erupts from the murky depths of our unknown selves, a rage or bitterness that we thought was as extinct as Vesuvius. Deep emotional fires that may go back to our infancy, like the child who comes to realize that he is an accident in this world, wasn’t wanted. The unwanted child may wonder, “Where was God when all this happened?”
Parents may not realize that they are destroying the self-respect of the child through endless fault-finding. We can carry a crushing load of guilt and alienation when it’s not our fault at all. And there are traumas of rejection that can devastate out adult lives like the death of a spouse or worse, a divorce. It covers us with a never-ending blanket of emotional rejection.
Does the gospel have some Good News for us that’s practical?
Yes! Justification by faith! It gives you peace with God as though you had never sinned, and as though no one else had ever sinned against you. You have truly laid it all on Christ, including all the mysterious secrets beyond even you.
We can forgive parents—maybe after they’re long gone, remembering that they didn’t know how to handle their problems. This healing through corporate repentance is ministered by the great High Priest, who is touched with the feeling of our infirmities, our weaknesses (Heb. 4:15). He is so infinite that He gives you His full attention as though you were the only patient He has.
You have a job. Step one: believe the Good News truth about Him. Step two: do what the Holy Spirit then tells you to do—He will hold your hand while you do it.
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