The bad psychological material is not a sin but a disease. It does not need to be repented of, but to be cured. And by the way, that is very important. Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices. When a neurotic who has a pathological horror of cats forces himself to pick up a cat for some good reason, it is quite possible that in God's eyes he has shown more courage than a healthy man may have shown in winning the V.C. When a man who has been perverted from his youth and taught that cruelty is the right thing does dome tiny little kindness, or refrains from some cruelty he might have committed, and thereby, perhaps, risks being sneered at by his companions, he may, in God's eyes, be doing more than you and I would do if we gave up life itself for a friend. It is as well to put this the other way round. Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends. Can we be quite certain how we should have behaved if we had been saddled with the psychological outfit, and then with the bad upbringing, and then with the power, say, of Himmler? That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it. Most of the man's psychological makeup is probably due to his body: when his body dies all that will fall off him, and the real central man, the thing that chose, that made the best or worst out of this material, will stand naked. All sorts of nice things which we thought our own, but which were really due to a good digestion, will fall off some of us: all sorts of nasty things which were due to complexes or bad health will fall off others. We shall then, for the first time, see every one as he really was. There will be surprises. .C.s. Lewis
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The great Bible story of Jesus' healing of the ten lepers is a powerful illustration of the power of Jesus to change lives. It's also about the power of Jesus to heal us; to make us whole; to give us new life; to restore our wholeness. And this story, about Jesus' healing the lepers, is also about our own healing. Jesus' miracles are really about him changing your life--choosing you and giving you a new way forward for the future. If you find yourself in a situation where you think, "I'm so alone," or "I've never felt so alone," or "I feel like I'm at my lowest point ever," ask yourself, "What would Jesus do? What would Jesus say?" For example: What would Jesus say if you were standing at the gate of hell with flames pouring out of it and Satan was standing there? He'd say, "Go back." Why? Because he wants you to live in heaven with him.
He wants you to be healed and whole--to go beyond all your pain and suffering and be set free by your relationship with him. If you've been hurt by someone, you can ask yourself what Jesus would say if he were here right now. You can ask him: "What would I do if I were in my situation again?" and then ask God to help you figure out how to forgive and move on from that person. Forgive them and move on. For example: A woman climbs into bed with her husband after a long day at work, but then she feels like something is wrong when he doesn't make love to her.
She starts thinking about all the other men in her life who have cheated on her (including her husband) when she gets up in the morning, when she goes shopping or when she's at church. She's angry with herself for feeling like this when her husband has always been faithful to her before. When her husband gets home and they talk about what happened in bed that night, she feels like she has nothing nice to say about herself because she feels like she's done something wrong when she got up that morning--she's feeling guilty for feeling angry when she should be feeling grateful instead. It seems so wrong for her to feel this way towards him when he's been so loving towards her all these years. Her husband tries hard to get through to her because he loves her so much, but nothing works.
Source: Mere Christianity
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