Healing from Imprisonment

Mike Erre last night, speaking about the nature of sexual sin and imprisonment,said that healing comes when you get sick and tired of giving in. Healing comes when you get sick and tired of hiding.

When he said that, I thought back to Adam in the garden--isn't that what we all do? We try and hide when we know we've messed up? Trust me from experience, when we finally stop hiding, when we finally say enough is enough I don't want to feel this guilt and this shame anymore....Jesus is right there to take it onto Himself. The beauty is the work has already been done, and the guilt and shame has already been paid for. God doesn't want you to have to go through that, and experience that perishing, that death--because He's already gone through it in your place. He offers the beautiful exchange program. God's gift to us is a new life--not as a result of our trying hard to stop or get it under control but as a result of what God does in us.