An Outside Perspective
May 9, 2008 by jonathanbrink
This post, at dear-god.net really hit me. I was that kid. I remember feeling that way and wondering how God could possibly love me. Forgiveness was not a likely scenario.
I now realize that I was deeply broken and searching for love in so many destructive ways. I was looking for something to heal my heart and found it in the intense sexual pleasure that is porn that was always followed by intense shame. To a great extent, that moment, the one deeply embedded in shame right after pleasure, was one of the closest things to hell on earth that I have experienced.
But what hit me about this post was not about porn, but about being on the outside and seeing that kid and knowing that God loves him no matter what he has done. I wish someone had told me that twenty years ago.
May we be love to those who live in this world and lift them out of shame.
