“Christianity isn’t merely about making good people better; it’s about raising the dead to life.”
~ Robert Capon
The dead spots in all of our lives are precisely the ones Jesus tends to aim his full focus, for while they remain in us, we can’t be whom we were meant to be. For Jesus wants us whole, and as CS Lewis said in Mere Christianity, He is not going to finish with us until the whole work is done.
When we are willing to come face to face with our individual, unique blind spot, holding our Lord’s hand while we summon this courage, we can find that our worst problem has been trying to tell us something important—as all pain does.
But once we listen to what it has to tell us, willing at last to accept God’s power within us to change it, then the dark cloud over that part of our lives can lift, revealing the brightest of sunshine.
~ Stephen Reed
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