December 27, 2021: How Have Our Sins and The Sins of Others Placed on Our Lives Affected Us?

The depth of the question above is overwhelming beyond comprehension. I experienced this in my personal life as a Christian that I stated in the book "Salvation to Surrender...A 35 Year Journey in Finding True Rest". That sin was the sin of molestation place on me when I was a young boy at the age of four or five years old and how it affected me until the Lord released me of the power of that sin upon my "full and absolute surrender to Him".

But the impact of other people's sin that are placed in our lives can reach down deep into our souls and impact the generations of our families. I have found the affect "of other people's" sin to be true in my family this weekend.

On Friday, Christmas evening, I called my mother to see how see she was doing. Through our conversation, the subject of my father's and my mother's marriage came up. Through her cries of deep hurt, my mother began to tell me of how my father use to abuse her. My dad, who has been deceased for over two years now and they were divorced well over twenty years use to abuse my mother mentally and physically. My mother gave me such detail of the abuse, that I felt the pain my mother was feeling deep in my heart as well.

The mental and physical abuse my father put on my mother has stayed with her throughout her lifetime. My mother, eighty-five now, has been a strong Christian woman for over 40 years. As we spoke, the Lord opened my eyes to share with my mother that the sin my father put on my mother was not her fault. It was the fault of my father, even though he is now deceased, and they had been apart for years. The years of an abusive marriage to my father affected and continued to affect my mother until this past weekend.

My mother, throughout her years, carried the burden of trying to please and making sure everything was clean and perfect around her. She would cook for us even though she was exhausted. She had no power to stop. She thought it was just who she was. But it wasn't. It was my dad's voice of fear that she continually heard in her head...to keep things clean the way he wanted them to be. My mother was helpless to the voice of fear of my dad in her life.

As I explained to her that she needed to surrender this sin my day had placed on her, she began to cry uncontrollably for about five minutes. As she composed herself, she said that she never saw it that way before. But as the truth sunk in, and she verbally confessed and surrendered that sin of my dad to the Lord, she immediately felt the peace in her heart and the release of the physical strain and pain that this sin had put on her life.

Our loving God wants to release us from all our sins in our lives, even the ones that are place on us by other people. Read the following verse in Jeremiah:

Jeremiah 33: 8

I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me.

PERSONNAL COMMENT:

We may have "salvation" in our hearts, and we may have asked Jesus to come into our lives and hearts, but not until we are ready to "surrender" absolutely everything to Him will we ever be free to live the life God wants us to live with Him. He wants to give us "True Rest" if we will only let Him. May God open our eyes and hearts to begin to see the sins in our life we are holding onto. Ask God to help you...talk to Christian counselor to help as well.