It's a rewarding ministry, but it has it's drawbacks. Sin takes its toll on our lives and many times the consequences of our sin saddles us with limitations that stay with us to our grave. Many of you wish that you had placed a higher value on your virginity, Others wish they had understood the wounds a rebellious spirit can inflict. Still others bear scars caused by a fixation on success and money. You are having difficulty doing that because of the ghost of your past.
Some people carry the scars of their parents disobedience.
Others feel a sense of shame because of what their parents did. Whether it was you, your parents or grandparents who sinned, the object of the exercise is not to assign blame, but to transform recognizable scars into beauty marks. On Thursday I heard a person on the radio talk about the scars adoption caused in her life. She was not told about her adoption until her thirty-first birthday. Some of you are aware that there is something not right in your life.