Originally posted on Facebook on Saturday, April 12, 2025.

Not all dysfunction in my life is caused by my sin—sometimes it’s hurt.

While the ultimate solution is regeneration through faith in Christ and dying to the old self, that transformation is a process.

And in the process, it’s easy to mistake pain for personality—for example, identifying as an introvert when, in truth, it’s trauma that makes me hide and keeps me from expressing who God made me to be.

Discerning the difference between what to die to and what to heal from often requires help.

That’s why I recommend Jesus and therapy—a decision to be made carefully, prayerfully, and with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, or we could end up like the man in Luke 11:26, whose last state was worse than the first.

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