Psalm 32:3–4 (ESV) —
3 For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.
4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.
Selah
NOTE: I know that
modern psychology wants to eliminate certain mores because they create shame.
They recognize that shame is a debilitating emotion. What they don't realize is
that shame, while painful and destructive, is God's tool to get our attention that
our actions or attitudes are wrong, and that continued activity will ruin us
even more. And so in that sense, shame is a warning mechanism. But do we really
believe it is for our good? If we have discounted God as our creator, then the
bible does not have information useful to our lives from the point of view of
the builder or creator, such as a user manual for a piece of software. If we
are the product of random chance then the bible contains good ideas by multiple
authors. But if God is our creator, as I believe he is, then the bible is
life's encyclopedia of information on living life to the fullest. I started to
write "God's secret" and then realized that there is nothing secret
about it, rather it is ignored though readily available to almost all.
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