PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE
Perhaps when you think about your new identity as God’s child
and read about Joann, you desire to move forward too. But you feel stuck. Here
are some ways that those who have been abused as children sometimes struggle as
adults:
- Trusting
others. It
can feel impossible to trust anyone after your trust has been shattered by
your childhood experiences.
- Having a healthy
sexual relationship with your spouse. If you were
sexually abused, sex for you has been maimed and twisted by darkness.
- Being filled
with bitterness. How do you avoid being filled with
bitterness when terrible evils have occurred? How can you learn to forgive
such a great wrong?
- Disciplining
your own children. How do you learn to
discipline your children in love when you were attacked by your own
parents?
- Dealing with any
conflict or confrontation. How do you confront a problem with
family, friends, or co-workers when anger and confrontation was brutally
distorted in your life?
You might have even more things to add to this list. Is God able
to work in these areas in your life and change your automatic responses to
people and situations? Yes he is. God can and will change you, not all at once,
but gradually over your lifetime. I have seen God do this many times in those
I’ve counseled. Change begins as you face what happened to you with God in
view.
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