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Three Ways to Respond When You Suffer Because of Wrongdoing

February 8, 2018 by wagraham Leave a Comment

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One of the great themes of Christianity is suffering for doing what is right. But what happens when we suffering for doing what is wrong?

You already know what I mean (or you will shortly). You’ve cheated, stolen, or something worse. Your conscience threatens you, external law threatens you, and, most importantly, broken relationships threaten you.

You suffer. And when you turn to Scripture, all you see is how believers respond to unjust suffering. But your suffering is just, and it crushes, consumes, and kills your soul.

God knows how you feel. And he wrote a book to heal you despite your deserved suffering. It’s called Lamentations. In it, we discover three ways to respond to deserved suffering, the pain of our wrongdoing. [Read more…] about Three Ways to Respond When You Suffer Because of Wrongdoing

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: Pain, Suffering

Opening Up Heals

April 13, 2017 by wagraham Leave a Comment

“If you want the doctor’s help, you must reveal the wound”

– Boethius

 

“Doctor’s wall” by Andrew Malone, CC-BY, on Flickr

Some of the deepest wounds are not marked on our bodies but in our hearts. We tuck away our disordered emotions into our inner-life until they explode into our outer-life. When we blow up and so probably speak rashly, we cut others to pieces:

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts. (Prov 12:18a)

[Read more…] about Opening Up Heals

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: Anxiety, Friends, Pain, Suffering

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Wyatt is the Executive Director of The Gospel Coalition Canada. He enjoys his family and writing. You'll generally find him hiding away somewhere with his nose in a book.

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