"...Confess your faults one to
another and pray one for another that [you] may be whole...."
I know this might sound a bit unusual, but friends, don't waste your pain. If you’re honest with God and yourself and with other people, God can use the thing, the event, or the circumstance you hate the most, that experience you’re most disappointed with and wished had never happened, He can use it for your growth and His glory.
Conversely, if you hide it and hold it back, it doesn’t do anyone any good. It’s as if God says, “You can’t change what happened to you. But I can use it for your benefit and for my purposes” Who's better for God to use than someone who has already been through what another person is going through right now?
- Who can better help the parent of a special needs child than a parent who raised a special needs child?
- Who can better help somebody going through a bankruptcy than somebody who has gone through it before?
- Who can better help somebody experiencing the heartbreak of divorce than somebody who remembers how terrible it felt?