• Healing From Shame And Anger Towards God

    Being angry with God is a common feeling that can come up in the life of a Christian, however, it’s not something that is widely talked about. It feels shameful to have any negative feelings towards God and so I think that many people suppress that anger and it comes out in other ways. For me, anger towards God has come out as anger or even hatred towards other Christians, as well as losing my desire to connect with God. I have often had periods where I had no desire to read the Bible, pray, worship, etc. Sometimes thinking of…

  • The Hope In Suffering

    I have always viewed suffering as a terrible thing, and have done everything in my power to escape it for as long as I can remember. Lately, I have to ask myself, why is suffering such a bad thing, something I have been so desperate to escape? According to Romans 5:3-5, suffering is actually a good thing, because it produces endurance, character, and hope. Hope is a confident expectation, not in what we can see, but what is unseen; that is in the coming of the Lord, the salvation we have in Him, and the eternal life we will receive…

  • Making Your Way Out of the Pit

    When you are down in the pit, there is only one way to go: Up. I have been down in the pit for a long time. I’m not sure when I first fell into the pit, but it seems like its been more like a rabbit hole, where I just kept falling and falling, endlessly. It wasn’t until I started doing my inner healing that I finally landed at the bottom of the pit. It was where I had a firm place to land finally, and allow Jesus to bring me into safety. Free falling for my whole life has been…