Needed to read this. My husband & I were discussing this very topic this morning. That and grace. Thank you, sheds a different light on things. Thank you!
Beautiful! When I grow up, I'm going to write as well as you, Amber. 🫶🏽 I love how you weave together the threads of the real and ideal, our heads and hearts, as well as divinity, and humanity. I appreciate how you believe in divine judgment, which is love. You know how God is poignantly named light and love in the NT? I've found that it's only when we bring the sins inside of us into the light, that they get healed. One could say revealing is healing. You might even say that normalizing our wrongs is what will set them right. I know lust, greed, slander, violence, and beyond dwell in the dark corners inside of me. And, when it is safe and welcome to share these things with others, they lose their power and I become progressively free from them. Thank you for inviting and cultivating that freedom!
Lang, you’re a gifted writer too! Thank you for reading and supporting. I especially love what you said about sin losing its power when we’re able to share it with others who aren’t trying to fix us. So right!
The LORD has been working in my life in a new way this past year. He is convincing me more every day that the biggest sins in my life are not what I do with my flesh (that which we call good or bad) but in how I treat the people HE brings to me each day! I, for one have been a person who has been so judgmental of those around me. I have been the person who sees the splinter while having a log in my own eye. But, thank the LORD He IS still working on me, all 71 years of me! I love you sweet niece.
Needed to read this. My husband & I were discussing this very topic this morning. That and grace. Thank you, sheds a different light on things. Thank you!
Thank you for reading, Brenda. God knows just what we need when we need it. Isn’t that amazing? I never tire of God’s provision.
Beautiful! When I grow up, I'm going to write as well as you, Amber. 🫶🏽 I love how you weave together the threads of the real and ideal, our heads and hearts, as well as divinity, and humanity. I appreciate how you believe in divine judgment, which is love. You know how God is poignantly named light and love in the NT? I've found that it's only when we bring the sins inside of us into the light, that they get healed. One could say revealing is healing. You might even say that normalizing our wrongs is what will set them right. I know lust, greed, slander, violence, and beyond dwell in the dark corners inside of me. And, when it is safe and welcome to share these things with others, they lose their power and I become progressively free from them. Thank you for inviting and cultivating that freedom!
Lang, you’re a gifted writer too! Thank you for reading and supporting. I especially love what you said about sin losing its power when we’re able to share it with others who aren’t trying to fix us. So right!
The LORD has been working in my life in a new way this past year. He is convincing me more every day that the biggest sins in my life are not what I do with my flesh (that which we call good or bad) but in how I treat the people HE brings to me each day! I, for one have been a person who has been so judgmental of those around me. I have been the person who sees the splinter while having a log in my own eye. But, thank the LORD He IS still working on me, all 71 years of me! I love you sweet niece.