Showing posts with label Deckard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Deckard. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Is it morbid to confess your sins?

The morbid thing is not to confess them.The morbid thing is to conceal your sins and let them eat away at your soul, which is exactly the state of most people in today's highly civilized communities.

GK Chesterton, quoted in:
M Deckard
Helpful Truth in Past Places
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Friday, October 08, 2010

Contentment

It is not by the humanistic, we are 'good people' approaches that people will find relief or more importantly growth. It is found by facing the the deceptions of our hearts, one of those being the notion that we are basically good people who make mistakes now and then. By first seeing ourselves as sinners always in need of God's grace, we are enabled to find the strength and righteousness of Christ which will allow us to overcome sin, love the unlovely, and persevere in 'dissatisfying' situations. Without confronting this deceptive belief with the truth of who we are, contentment will never be achieved.

M Deckard
Helpful Truth in Past Places
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