Pain, Guilt, or Shame + The Cure and GOD = Healing & Forgiveness

So I’ve started to read through The Cure by John Lynch, Bruce McNicol, and Bill Thrall, which I mentioned in my last post. It has been validated some of the things that I’ve been thinking/feeling, it has explained some of the healing process that I’ve gone through in Washington, and pointed out that I still need to go through the healing process some more. We sin. We sin against others, we sin against ourselves, and we sin against God. Sin is not something that we were created to deal with. It causes us pain when we sin and when we’re sinned against. We try to manage the sin and the results of sin (pain, guilt, or shame) but we can’t and it only winds up causing more problems. We’ll never heal the pain when we are trying to manage our sin on our own. There’s nothing that we can do to erase sin other than to accept and trust that Jesus paid the bill for us. Healing comes with forgiveness, but first we have to come to the end of ourselves and admit that sin has happened, either I’ve sinned or someone’s sinned against me. There are consequences for sin and we need to face up to those consequences, it’s the truth and we need to stop hiding the truth. We need to be honest and humbly tell God everything about it. It is painful and scary to confront my sin or the sin that someone else has afflicted on me, the consequences of that sin, and to honestly tell God everything about it, how I felt leaving no stone unturned. This process is hard and is a lot of work but the rewards are so much better than trying to hide the sin or burring the hurt, guilt, or shame. There’s a lot more than the little bit that I’ve talked about from the book and I know that I didn’t say everything that they said about forgiveness and healing, so get the book and read it.