After
Bible study and worship service, I asked my daughter, a first grader, what she learned in her class that Sunday morning. "You must never be angry, for it's
a sin to be angry," was her reply. She had learned something that isn't true,
for God designed us to express this emotion. However when out of control and destructive,
anger can be harmful and sinful.
To be restricted from sharing your
thoughts and feelings with a loving, trusting intimate other is to smother the person
God created you to be. Otherwise you're pretending to be something that's false.
To come to the end of life without having been able to articulate what you
think and feel, which is a very important need, would be a great loss.
To
avoid this loss and the despair it creates, choose to accept the freedom and
autonomy God makes possible through faith and trust in Christ Jesus. Jesus said
that God "has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives." Integrity
grounded in love for God, for others, and for oneself breaks the restraints of
self-imprisonment. Jesus will help you do this.
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