Saturday, December 18
From Fear to Freedom
(Colorado Springs, Co.: WaterBrook Press, 1994), 72-73
Totally criticized and completely forgiven
Give up your success-and-failure patterns. Seek grace in Christ, humbly and honestly. Understand that a conviction of sin does not make you neurotic, but rather it spells the beginning of the end for neurosis. After all, what is a neurotic? Simply a hurting person who is closed off to criticism in any form and yet engages in the most intense, destructive self criticism that produces neither hope nor help.
What a marvelous relief God’s grace in Christ offers. I had been totally criticized, and at the same time I was completely forgiven. As I rested in the work of another, my heart was at peace with God; and for the first time, I felt at peace with myself.
From Fear to Freedom
(Colorado Springs, Co.: WaterBrook Press, 1994), 72-73