The 10-Day Journey to the Day of Atonement
Confession brings to mind the sins we’ve hidden or covered up. Skeletons in the closet are still in active operation in the discernment of who we are. Shame becomes an unseen stronghold buried in the shadows of our mind.
“Jews Don’t Repent, They Do Teshuvah Instead” (Chabad.org, by Tzvi Freeman)
The Jewish tradition of Teshuvah is often mistranslated as “repentance.” Teshuvah (תשובה) means turning yourself around. Recovering. Realigning. Getting back to who you truly are, to your inner soul, to the purpose for which you were sent to this world. And yet higher.
2 Timothy 1:7 (KJV)
7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
A personal reckoning can make us vulnerable to spiritual warfare. We can get stuck on the sin of our greatest shame. It vexes our Spirit to remember. We must remember, but we never have to “follow that road” in the shame of re-experiencing our personal trauma.
Jesus died for us, so that a New Spirit of purity can be the “I Am” that carries on. The evil one can steal our joy, but not our Salvation. The question that matters is, “Who am I now?”
