In the last issue of this article, I began to present some General Principles relating to finding our true selves. I ended the article with the fact that Jesus knows that we have thoughts of vengeance, violence, lust, pride; there is no sense in trying to hide from Him what He already knows. And yet that is what we try to do when we repress our evil thoughts – we are trying to hide them from Him and from ourselves. The problem is that we don’t wasn’t to admit that such thoughts could even come from us. We are afraid to admit that we have the potential for evil. However, if we lose touch with the potential for evil, two dire consequences await us: our potential for evil will be out of the control of our conscious minds and therefore it will be more apt to be in control of us; and we will also lose touch with our potential for good. In other words, we will not know who we are.

It seems that there are many people in our society who are in this state today. Because they justify their evil thoughts and rationalize their evil deeds, they also cannot see clearly the good within themselves. Therefore, they are ripe for the evil repressed in their unconscious minds to rise up and take over their lives. They live lives of mutual destruction in hatred, anger, jealousy, and the like and create fruitless and frustrating relationships. Our newspapers are filled with their stories, our social agencies are backed up with their cases, and our courts are log-jammed with their litigations.

Jesus’ answer to all this is that we need not fear our potential for evil if we immediately bring it to Him, for He has been victorious over all evil. Because of His Cross, none of us on earth needs to be in bondage to the evil of which we are capable. Therefore, Jesus asks us to tell Him the thoughts of our minds and to let them go into His hands, thereby cleansing our inner selves and making us whole and wholesome.

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