Every person, every situation has a back story. There are always things in the past that help create the present person or moment. If we want to understand our life more fully or help another understand their life, we must probe into their story.
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Gary
Great insight! As a physician, I can tell you that sometimes we actually GET what we thought we wanted. And only later realize that our hearts were searching for something quite different. ?The importance of a mentor at key stages of our life.
Also, the “back” story behind you on the computer is delicious irony!
Hi Gary, great observation. There is always a story under the story (actually, like there is always a sin beneath the sin). And we tend to see the obvious story, and miss the real story (and we focus on the obvious sin while missing what is causing it).
After coming to Christ I had some good bible teachers to help me learn the Kingdom of God. I spent so much time learning all this really cool new stuff that I never looked back. I just had this idea that Jesus must have died for all that junk in my past and now I must just learn the truths of this new life.
Whats fascinating is this idea of a back story. The idea that Jesus is just as concerned about what “happened” to me as he is about whats “going to happen.”
Gary – how does the Lord (my councilor) prompt me when He wants me to go back for some healing because something is lodged in my heart from the past?
Gary
Great insight! As a physician, I can tell you that sometimes we actually GET what we thought we wanted. And only later realize that our hearts were searching for something quite different. ?The importance of a mentor at key stages of our life.
Also, the “back” story behind you on the computer is delicious irony!
Keep up the good work. Praying for you.
AP
Hi Gary, great observation. There is always a story under the story (actually, like there is always a sin beneath the sin). And we tend to see the obvious story, and miss the real story (and we focus on the obvious sin while missing what is causing it).
Thanks,
Sam
Great point – there is always a sin beneath the sin.
What a good reminder. And how vital it is to show others the path to a “full life”.
After coming to Christ I had some good bible teachers to help me learn the Kingdom of God. I spent so much time learning all this really cool new stuff that I never looked back. I just had this idea that Jesus must have died for all that junk in my past and now I must just learn the truths of this new life.
Whats fascinating is this idea of a back story. The idea that Jesus is just as concerned about what “happened” to me as he is about whats “going to happen.”
Gary – how does the Lord (my councilor) prompt me when He wants me to go back for some healing because something is lodged in my heart from the past?
Jeff
Wonderful Gary. There’s always something underneath, usually hiding, that helps tell the story and pull out the truth.