Hang onto your hats peeps, I’m about to climb up on my soapbox. If you are easily offended, please do us all a favor, and keep scrolling because this post is meant to do exactly that. So. Let’s get to it, shall we?
Did you know that your childhood trauma doesn’t earn you a martyr’s badge?
It doesn’t.
It also doesn’t grant you a license to be a jerk.
And it sure doesn’t make everyone else’s trauma less important, or painful, than yours. Trauma isn’t graded on a scale that only favors you. Everyone’s had trauma in their lives. Circumstances might be different, but I can guarantee that the pain is the same.
Right about now I’m certain there are people rolling their eyes, or saying, “You just don’t understand what I went through!”
Maybe I do.
Did you ever stop to think about that?
If I had to place a bet, I’d wager that the thought has never once entered your mind. Because, of course, everything is all about you. Your pain. Your trauma. Your hurt. You’re so busy wrapping yourself up in your victim mentality that you can’t even see the pain in front of you.
What you went through doesn’t give you special privileges. It doesn’t wipe out your responsibility for your current actions or words. The excuse, “it’s just the way I am” doesn’t apply.
Especially if you say you are a Christian.
Oh. You can quote the scriptures with the best of them. Lift your hands to praise the Lord and all that, but I have to ask…
Do you really believe?
Do you really believe God not only saved you from your sin, but He also freed you from your past?
You do?
Then why don’t you act like it?
I’m not talking to people who struggle with it. Who are trying to get past it but have really bad days. To those of you who are clinging tightly to Jesus’ healing hands, keep holding. It will get better, and one day you will rise above the trauma.
No, I’m talking to those Christians who have either given up and set up camp at the edge of victimhood, or are waving banners and sucking up all the attention it creates.
1 Corinthians 15:57 tells us…”But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
It’s time brother or sister in Christ, to lay it down. Being a victim is not your superpower. Stop wallowing in it. Being a victim is not who you are. It’s not who you are meant to be.
It’s time to take Jesus’ bloodstained hands and accept the victory He already paid for with His death. You are new in Christ, old things are gone, and that means that childhood trauma you’re clinging so tightly to no longer has power over you.