I started this blog in order to blog about Christianity and my thoughts thereof. I haven't posted much since I started it. Things I was going through felt too personal to blog about here. However I come through a time of deep soul searching and find myself desiring to share my thinking about Christianity again... I don't know where this will lead but I can promise one thing... It will be painfully honest and unusual, just like I am.
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The world at large calls religion/God a crutch for which we lean on. I completely disagree!
Anyone who struggles with trust issues will understand how hard it can be to trust someone whom can seen, touched, or smell but trusting someone who is unseen and only "felt" can be damn near impossible.
The last year, plus, I have spent a lot of time researching trafficking and sexual abuse and the affects of abuse on the human physche. Trust is lost in these situations and often times so badly lost that one can barely trust themselves. If this is the case, how can they trust an unseen God?
God understands and works with us, one step after another. He works with us in small things and then moves to bigger and bigger things as we learn to trust him. A crutch is something you lean on when you cannot stand or walk. In the case of abuse, just learning how to lean on something or someone else is harder than going it alone.
We hear the tale of the "Footprints in the Sand" and wonder if that's really for us. Do we deserve it? Am I really that special that this "loving" God would walk with me through the good and the bad and even carry me? For abuse survivors, the answer is almost always no. They can only trust themselves and even at that, can they really? God isn't a crutch. God is a really just another disappointment like everyone else. He is not to be trusted.
If the world, the church, really understood this struggle maybe they would see a totally different God than the one that's been painted for them and maybe then there might be more compassion found within the church for the sinner and less judgment.
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The world at large calls religion/God a crutch for which we lean on. I completely disagree!
Anyone who struggles with trust issues will understand how hard it can be to trust someone whom can seen, touched, or smell but trusting someone who is unseen and only "felt" can be damn near impossible.
The last year, plus, I have spent a lot of time researching trafficking and sexual abuse and the affects of abuse on the human physche. Trust is lost in these situations and often times so badly lost that one can barely trust themselves. If this is the case, how can they trust an unseen God?
God understands and works with us, one step after another. He works with us in small things and then moves to bigger and bigger things as we learn to trust him. A crutch is something you lean on when you cannot stand or walk. In the case of abuse, just learning how to lean on something or someone else is harder than going it alone.
We hear the tale of the "Footprints in the Sand" and wonder if that's really for us. Do we deserve it? Am I really that special that this "loving" God would walk with me through the good and the bad and even carry me? For abuse survivors, the answer is almost always no. They can only trust themselves and even at that, can they really? God isn't a crutch. God is a really just another disappointment like everyone else. He is not to be trusted.
If the world, the church, really understood this struggle maybe they would see a totally different God than the one that's been painted for them and maybe then there might be more compassion found within the church for the sinner and less judgment.
posted by Candlelight @ 9:01 PM
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