No one wants their dirty laundry displayed, but you can't let hidden sin control you either. God IS light. If we want to live as His people, then we have to live IN the light instead of being afraid of it like Adam. Just lies from the enemy...and our own pride talking. God can use whoever He wants, no matter what they've done.
If God's opinion is all we truly care about, then what is there to fear? The enemy convinces us that "if people knew that about me, it would harm my reputation as a man/woman of God and hurt my Christian witness". I know because of how many times I've said it to myself. Perhaps God can use you more when you are "real" and understand others because you've been there. You become relatable.
Christian culture conditions us to be "set apart", but not in the way God intended. He said to be IN this world not of it. I'm sure Chuck Colson and Jim Bakker have done more SINCE their sin was revealed than before.
The self - righteous "set apart" Christian leaders/lay people harm those of us trying to be real and transparent. It's a system set up to fail because of human pride. God's way is more simple than that, and based on love, not laws.
All men fall, but trying to hide our sin hinders and shackles us, even if just within ourselves, separating us from God like Adam in the Garden. When we are humble and transparent, it is threatening to Christians that are hiding. They fear revealing their own mistakes and imperfections, and losing control.
It is when we let things go that God reveals TRUE freedom. The enemy doesn't want us to know that.
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