Sometimes as biblical counselors we don’t clearly enough understand the distinction between biblical sorrow and sinful complaining, and I think because of that we end up hurting people more than helping people. I do believe there is a biblical distinction. As biblical counselors, we recognize that this world we live in, according to Romans 8, is groaning. And if you read Romans 8, Paul says that even we as believers are groaning because the fullness of our adoption (and everything else that’s been promised) has not come yet. Everyone has this sense that things are not the way they are supposed to be. But God’s given us the pledge of His Spirit. We’ve got a down payment, so to speak. We’re engaged and the bridegroom is coming, but we live in this season of the already, but the not yet. It can be very painful and I think as counselors if we’re too quick to rebuke people for being sorrowful, we miss it.
And we’re not in line with the Scriptures actually, so I want to help us to understand this a little better. It means that our world is filled not just with
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