An excerpt from Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Susan M. Shaw's book, 'Surviving God: A New Vision of God Through the Eyes of Sexual Abuse Survivors.'
“The message became part of us. Good girls and good women did as they were told and kept quiet about it. … What a setup for abuse.”by Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Susan M. Shaw, published by Broadleaf Books on March 26, 2024.
We were told not to question Him; we were to submit and obey. Our metaphors—Father, Master, Lord and King—reinforced this, and we were to submit and obey in the same way to the men who stood in God’s place for us—fathers, pastors, husbands, teachers, leaders. The very words we used to describe God—almighty, powerful, all-knowing, majestic, righteous—instilled fear in us as they underlined the sense that God could do to us whatever He wanted at any time, for any reason.
We even sang it: “Perfect submission, perfect delight”; “I surrender all”; “Trust and obey”; “Have thine own way, Lord, have thine own way. Hold o’er my being absolute sway.”
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