What is your River Jordan? What keeps you from crossing over? Sometimes it is blame—blaming everyone else for not taking that first step; blaming your parents for their dysfunction or total absence; blaming a boss or a husband who doesn’t lead; or anyone who might absorb the blame and the accompanying shame so that you can continue to make excuses and stay on the wrong side of the river. Blaming your absentee father or your broken or unavailable mother, or blaming your husband or your lack of a husband, or your children or lack of children, or your employment or unemployment, or the hardships you’ve experienced on this side of the Jordan. If we choose to blame, we forfeit the game.

And the Enemy wins. This Enemy does not want you to cross over. He wants you to stand, wistfully, on the desert side of the Jordan. He wants blame to incapacitate you, to decapitate you, to keep you from looking to our true Head, Jesus, and setting forth in the waters of the River Jordan. Our parents’ name for us, their raising of us, changes nothing about the truth—that God gloried in us from before our conception (“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you” [ Jeremiah 1:5]) and glories in us now. Remembering, knowing that kind of love, changes our lives. It enables us to impact others with the same kind of loving attention and compassion that Jochebed demonstrated. It is time to let go. And step into the Jordan River.

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