“Every man has within his own reminiscences certain things he doesn’t reveal to anyone, except, perhaps, to his friends. There are also some that he won’t reveal even to his friends, only to himself perhaps, and even then, in secret. Finally, there are some which a man is afraid to reveal even to himself.”
You know, this is a section from the reading that kind of really grabbed my attention. How many times have we felt just like this, that we can not reveal something even to our closest friends? What causes us to feel this way. There are a number of things - guilt, shame, humiliation, etc. The devil feeds lies to us that make us uncomfortable to expose things from our past or even our present for fear that others, especially our friends, will no longer accept us. Dostoevsky is all over the place and concise all at once… But this section is a very true one, no matter what God or gods one serves. It is a struggle for both believers and none believers alike. I believe in Jesus Christ. He desires to set us free from all things past and present and to wash over it with His blood.
PS - Commented on Rachel K.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you're saying here. I, like most, have been in situations before where I felt as if I couldn't tell anyone what I was going through. No matter how small the problem, when a person is facing it, it seem like the end of the world and its easy to feel like no one would understand. But that is one of the things that is so amazing about God. Even if the entire world turns against us, He's still there. So, even though it's easier said than done, we really have no reason to fear, even those things most men would be "afraid to reveal even to himself."
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