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People who have been abused, sexually, emotionally or physically, can feel worthless, unclean, hopeless, powerless, unwanted or 'trashed'. Abuse is a terrible, destructive event. But there is hope.
God's grace can come to abused people and allow transformation to occur. Here is what one Christian writer wrote (Mark Strom).
"Grace is a lovely old-fashioned word that doesn't figure much in our vocabulary. Grace is treating people with kindness, with generosity with dignity, regardless of their rank or position or our own. Grace subverts rank with kindness.
Grace is kindness, dignity and compassion shown to others, especially when they don't deserve it or have any claim to it.
Grace is a radical idea. To show grace is to refuse to judge a person as a human being by any mark of rank and status. To show grace is to ignore educational attainment, wealth, physical appearance and prowess, popularity, fame or success as marks of a person's value. It is to stand as equal to equal, and to act accordingly."
This is how God sees you, no matter how your see yourself.
The events themselves cannot be simply forgotten, or easily undone. But they can be transformed by Jesus.
God's grace can come to abused people and allow transformation to occur. Here is what one Christian writer wrote (Mark Strom).
"Grace is a lovely old-fashioned word that doesn't figure much in our vocabulary. Grace is treating people with kindness, with generosity with dignity, regardless of their rank or position or our own. Grace subverts rank with kindness.
Grace is kindness, dignity and compassion shown to others, especially when they don't deserve it or have any claim to it.
Grace is a radical idea. To show grace is to refuse to judge a person as a human being by any mark of rank and status. To show grace is to ignore educational attainment, wealth, physical appearance and prowess, popularity, fame or success as marks of a person's value. It is to stand as equal to equal, and to act accordingly."
This is how God sees you, no matter how your see yourself.
The events themselves cannot be simply forgotten, or easily undone. But they can be transformed by Jesus.
It’s knowing Jesus hears, understands because He has been there, and bears our pain compassionately that becomes our strength to honestly acknowledge and confront our pain in hope and without despair or hopelessness. That, suddenly, it’s “all gone” zapped away, is unrealistic wishful thinking. Getting over it is learning how to live through and beyond our pain, and to incorporate the reality of God’s life within us day by day. Thus, failure can become wisdom, insecurity can become sensitivity to the wounded, sexual abuse can lead to confronting sexuality and discovering what good sex is about. That is transformation centred around appropriation of God’s principles into our lives experientially.
John
NZ
John
NZ
