Sexual misconduct continues to make headlines today.
Many of the celebrities at last night’s Grammy Awards wore white roses to show their support for the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. Earlier in the day, we learned that Sen. Marco Rubio fired his chief of staff over “allegations of improper conduct.”
Meanwhile, CNN is reporting that “the fallout from Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse is just beginning.” Rachel Denhollander was the first victim to speak out. At Nassar’s hearing last week, she made this remarkable statement to her abuser:
“Should you ever reach the point of truly facing what you have done, the guilt will be crushing. And that is what makes the Gospel of Christ so sweet. Because it extends grace and hope and mercy where none should be found and it will be there for you.”
She added: “I pray you experience the soul crushing weight of guilt so that you may someday experience true repentance and true forgiveness from God which you need far more than forgiveness from me, though I extend that to you as well.”
How could she make such a courageous and Christ-centered statement to her abuser and the world?
Making God “my light”
Rachel Denhollander has clearly experienced what every believer facing great pain can know: “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” (Psalm 27:1-2).
To choose God as “my light” means that I choose not to live in the dark or try to walk in light produced by my capacities or those of others. This is a humbling decision, an admission that I need God’s light and can trust it above any other.
Of course, making God “my light” does not exempt me from darkness. In David’s psalm, triumph is followed immediately by tragedy.
His next verse: “When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh . . .” (v. 2). And the next verse: “Though an army encamp against me . . .” (v. 3). He even states that “my father and…
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