Recently I've been in conversations about how believers have learned to breed an underground world of sin and we are complicit in the production of those dark hidden caverns.
It begins with the failure to openly admit that we all have pain. We all have been deeply wounded. We all wrestle with things that have been done to us. We are all desperate to be heard and healed...on a continual basis.
But we are not permitted to share that struggle openly with those around us. It's too messy. It takes time to unpack. It takes a nonjudgmental ear. A heart that can simply listen to us and not fix us. To be WITH us and not live life AT us. So wounds can not find healing.
Thus we burrow in. We dig down. We fly below the radar. We hide our sin. Our pain. Our wounds. We create an intricate underground world that no one knows about.
And that is how we create a culture that breeds sin. On the surface it's all Good. God is good. PTL. I'm doing fine thank you. We fall into these cliches. And nobody can hear what we hide.
But as the old adage goes, be sure your sin will find you out, eventually the waterline will recede and show what is below the surface. And that moment of exposure shocks entire communities. And we are all left wondering "how did this happen? Why did he fall?".
All the while the saga continues as we all tuck away our hurt and wounded hearts. When we fail to create a culture where we can trust each other with our deepest pain and recognize that ALL humans struggle in this manner (from leader to follower from young in the faith to old) we will continue to exasperate the issue at hand.
To fail to have the freedom to share our wounds will always come with devastating consequences. We are all terrified to share our pain but it will always create a culture that breeds sin if we have no brother to bear the burden.
We must choose to break the cycle. In so doing, we fulfill the law of Christ.
Bear each others burdens.
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