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Repentance should perhaps be seen as a process of abandoning all of our own strategies to secure ourselves.
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Are we really moving away from religion to security in faith? What is the foundation of that assurance? Fear describes the cause of our thinking and actions — guilt describes many of our actions of self-preservation. Fear sees the alleged hostility of God as a threat.
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Sin is I suggest, not something outside of us like the white surrounding the yoke of a fried egg. We are the result of what life has thrown at us and how we have chosen to deal with it which in many cases consists of just accepting things as they are. We have all created different coping strategies — how do we abandon the fears that control us? How many of us have experienced a lack of trust as children?
Emotional scars are not easily healed. Is it really true that the resulting self-centredness is usually rebellion against God? Where is the trust, security and freedom that comes from God?
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The narrative of fear is complex: It results in interweaving strands of behaviour as varied as greed, violence, self-harm, conscientiousness, moral duty, guilt, attention seeking, apparent ultruism, lust, anxiety, compliance, defiance and so on. Where is the freedom from the need to defend ourselves?
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Many seem to draw a distinction between our initial reconciliation and the reconciliation of our daily living — seeing redemption and sanctification as a two step process often involving our own efforts. If we can see sin as our attempts to make ourselves safe, we can see that fear no longer needs to be a factor in our relationships. We have a choice to see and embrace the world as God now gives it to us — as a gift.
Will we participate and allow the Holy Spirit to guide us? This is so far from the idea of striving to live up to some high ideals and always falling short.