“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God. — Isaiah 40:1
The key to transforming lives is
… NOT repentance (at least the way it is commonly understood)
… NOT salvation (the way it is commonly approached)
… NOT Bible knowledge
… NOT word of faith
… NOT trying harder, praying more, speaking in tongues or almost anything else that is commonly proposed.
Lest you think I’m a heretic, let me reassure you: I believe in salvation. I believe in the Bible. I believe in repentance and faith and prayer.
But these things do not typically transform people’s lives. Saved people still get drunk and depressed. Bible scholars commit adultery. And so on.
The key to transforming lives is allowing the presence of Christ through the locked doors of our souls. Everybody has doors that are locked. Everybody has rooms in their souls with big "KEEP OUT" signs on the door.
What do these locked doors look like? They typically are NOT what you would think. They typically are NOT, "I’ll never go to Africa," or "I’ll never give up my gambling." But rather these locked doors are hurting, painful places that we want to close off to God, to ourselves and to everyone else.
These hurting places are the fulcrum of the soul. If we want Christ to have the leverage that He needs to grant us real love, joy, peace, patience and so on, He needs to bring His soothing, comforting presence into these places inside that have been off limits for so long.
Be encouraged!
Dwight
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Victims of violent crimes and survivors of abuse are finding peace,
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