Joanne B. Holstein is a Becker Bible Studies teacher and author of Guided Bible Studies for Hungry Christians. She has received her Master of Science degree in Psychology/Christian Counseling with honors from Liberty University. She is well-known as a counselor to Christian faithful who are struggling with tremendous burden in these difficult times. She is a leading authority on the history of development of the Christian churches and the practices and beliefs of world religions and cults.
“Forgiveness is an act that joins moral truth, forbearance, compassion, and commitment to repair torn human relationships by releasing anger, fear, and the desire for revenge. "
The whole goal for forgiveness is to restore a relationship to good will and trust with that person who has hurt you. When there is forgiveness there is no longer the motivated desire to protect ourselves. There is a motivation to heal that relationship. Forgiveness gives the desire to think good thoughts about our spouse, have a positive rather than negative remembrance of the spouse.
The ideal is to have a relationship between husband and wife and the LORD God. This is a covenant between and it calls both man and woman to submit to yield their lives to the LORD God and to one another as a sign of the covenant bond. Being a wife, it is not a matter of being a door mat to your husbands it is a matter of being a loving partner to him.
Husbands are to be loving, considerate and caring for the wives and wives are to be loving, considerate and caring toward the husbands. It isn’t supposed to be a battle to award a medal to whoever is the stronger sex, or who can manipulate better using the harshest methods.
People in this hurting world can only find peace in the suffering of Jesus. A hurting person needs to reach out and gain understanding of their life pain through the love of Jesus Christ.
We are living in a time of fear, uncertainty, confusion, many are living in bondage, and misgiving of the world around us.Not all fear is bad. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.”
depression which is a deep level of emotional turmoil and can affect many people in different ways. Depression affects individual’s families, the work place and anyone that is in regular contact with the depressed person.
Rape is an act of violence and an that is against the law and love of the LORD God. We need to understand that the LORD God does not hide this evil and we are expected to confront it and respond to it out of a Christ like love. The rape victim needs understanding and compassion to help this person to heal. There is no love like the love of Jesus who can help in this healing process.