Release and Renewal

We make demands.

We don’t want to feel this way anymore. We don’t want to feel the burden. We don’t want to feel the strain. We find it an overwhelming weight at times. Sometimes it even shows in those moments when we let slip the personal agony in a wince or yelp.

We don’t want to fell this way anymore.

So we are given the route for deliverance. Confess it. Confess the burden. Confess the guilt. Confess the shame. Confess the issue that keeps dragging you down.

It doesn’t mean that by just confessing it all goes away. Some might find it therapeutic to ‘get it off their chest’, but that’s no guarantee that the matter has been resolved. Indeed just because it’s been confessed, it does not mean it’s been released, but there is certainly the issue that confessing can be an important step in the release.

We can agree it needs to be released. It does not belong there. It is not doing good there. It is doing tremendous harm there. It needs to go. It needs to be released.

What is also needed is for something pure, true and good to take the place of the bad that took up that space. Indeed something far greater than the weight of the guilt and shame that can rather than degrade us will renew us. Really allow us to experience life to the full.

Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of the Living God, is the only one to whom we can safely find that release of the sins and sorrows and find the renewal of abundant life we so desperately need.

It’s whether we will do what’s necessary to be relieved, or if we want to let the weight that’s pulling us down get us to the point of death and beyond.

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For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden