Article October 15, 1990 Issue

Finding restoration from a damaged past

If something bad has happened in our lives, how do we recoup the loss?

Robert R. MacKusick

If we think our lives have been permanently damaged by some event or circumstance, these words from the Bible can be very comforting: "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."

There's always a spiritual way to "escape" the emotional shock so often attached to physical or mental injury. Intense fear does not have to leave an indelible impression so that we're never totally free from the remembrance of the circumstance that caused the fear. There's a way of restoration.

That way means getting closer to God. We're restored to a natural state of mental clarity and self-government by our learning what God knows of us as His creation, as "partakers of the divine nature." This knowledge gives us the means to escape "the corruption that is in the world"—to be free morally and physically.

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