Within the past seven years or so, I’ve had many chance encounters with people who proudly stated that they once were Christians … but had been delivered from that horrendous belief system.
In asking them to describe to me what areas they had the greatest problem with, none showed any hesitation as they listed the familiar complaints of
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Like a shadow, the presence of dread is so familiar, so commonplace that it is rarely seen or acknowledged for what it is.
As the sun rises, the mind awakens from it’s deep sleep. During the night, the mind spoke the deep thoughts of the subconscious in rhymes, riddles and symbols. Emotions were amplified and appeared larger than life. The “release-valve” of disturbing dreams, was opened and the subconscious mind ‘screamed’ of it’s private contents which had been pushed deeply down during the day by being ignored and not dealt with.
Un
conditional love can be confusing at best. In our modern world, “unconditional” means that there are no consequences to our actions.
Stating that love should be “unconditional” sets up a mighty resistance in the person who is told that they must love ‘unconditionally’, the abusive and selfish actions of their spouse (for instance.)
If that were the case, then the scripture that refers to “reaping what we sow” would be conflicting. So what does “unconditional” REALLY mean?
To understand more fully how much God loves us, let’s replace “unconditional” with the word “absolute.” God loves us absolutely. His love is an absolute love. It is set, does not waver, is solid.
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