In a recent blog I shared with
the world I made confession about the truth of the wrongs I have committed in
my life. It was inexplicably liberating for my soul. I was imprisoned 5 years within the perimeter
of my own mind. It was all guilt and shame laden over wrongs that I had
committed 15 years ago. After hiding within my own skin and making pretense of
being someone other than who I really was, I am finally enjoying what it feels
like to live and walk under the forgiveness that God has given me. After all if I can’t be me, who can I be?
God is infinitely forgiving; however, people are often not so forgiving,
and long after God has wiped away the sin debt one has accumulated, some people
will continue to hold the wrong one has committed against them in unjust judgment. In a great many instances as in the case of
sexual abuse a wrong has been committed against the person, but perversely, a metaphorical
stain and taint is imputed onto them by the judgment of their fellows. Anyone who has been victimized and injured
ought not to be judged negatively, but a custom, culture, and a societal
pathology has fostered a mindset whereby people elevate themselves above other
people based on the failures and misfortunes that others experience.
As a person who has come out and
openly confessed the truth about himself, I wanted to use that confession as a
platform to encourage the reader to enjoy the same freedom and not be
constrained by the unjust judgment of others. Fear, shame, and guilt are
devices of the enemy designed to obstruct the children of God from victorious
living. God does not want his people living in fear of being exposed or imprisoned
by shame and guilt from the residues of things that are past. God gave his only begotten son, and the blood
of His son Jesus Christ was spilled so that Gods people could be liberated by
its redemptive and restorative powers. Not solely to make it to heaven, but to
make a heaven within their own selves while they sojourned upon this earth.
It took great courage for me to
make confession of my soul, because I know how soul crushingly brutal the
judgment of others has been. But it begs
the question, “If I couldn’t be me, then who could I be?” I’ve discovered no matter what I do, I will
always have my critics. What’s better
for me today is to live each new day in the freedom that God has given me in
His Son Jesus Christ, and to not be overly pre-occupied with the opinions of
others.
Some people have a lot of other
people fooled, but they can’t fool themselves.
In their own hearts and in their own minds they are convicted by their
own hypocrisy similar to the cop who beats his wife at his home and goes to
another mans dwelling and arrest him for the same crime. They know they are phony. In the bible, God says that there is “none
righteous, no not one” and that all of our righteousness “is as filthy
rags.” Those persons who make pretense
that their lives are perfect and without sin make a mockery of Gods words, and
a mockery of us folks whose flaws are obvious. To be honest it hurts sometimes,
but I learned to keep my head up high, why?
Cause only God can judge me…
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