One of my favorite bloggers, the Internet Monk, has often opened my eyes to the Gospel truth and helped me untangle the burdens of a tormented conscience. No other blogger has helped in my recovery more.
Satan revels in torment of the conscience. The Spirit exposes our need of Christ. The accuser comes up with various comparisons and tests to brutalize us with personal applications of the law. (”If God said I can only save the world if one of your children is damned forever, would you still love God?”)
Jesus gives us the truth. Satan distorts the truth so that the Gospel is lost in the noise. Christ wants to bring the wandering sheep home. Satan wants the sheep to despair and jump off the cliff.
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