昨天我們說只有揭露了的問題才能夠獲得解決。這只是空話還是有聖經根據的理論？且看我今天是否能說服你相信這是有聖經基礎的一句話。

讓我們一起回到伊甸園，再次思考神向始祖發出的問題：「你在哪裡？……誰告訴你赤身露體呢？……你作的是甚麼事呢？」（創三9-13）。是否有人認為神需要提出這些問題才能夠得到答案？當然不需要。作為全知（也就是擁有所有知識）的神，祂已經知道他們倆做了甚麼。那麼祂為甚麼還要向他們提出那些尖銳的問題呢？答案是鼓勵他們面對這些他們寧願逃避的事情。神知道在問題得到處理以前，必須先將問題揭露。

有些人可能認為處理不能接受的思想，最好的方法是將它們推到無意識去，但我們今天的信息告訴我們這種做法是非常錯的。埋藏在我們裡面而沒有揭露出來的問題，只會令我們失去屬靈能量。要壓抑事情其實需要很多感情的能量，正因為這樣，一再使用壓抑防衛的人最終會感到筋疲力盡。健康的人是好像詩篇七十三篇的詩人一樣，將思想和感受帶到意識裡去，儘管它們可能會顯得「不屬靈」。

We said yesterday that exposed problems are the only ones that can be resolved. Is this just an interesting theory, or is it something that can be supported from Scripture? Let me see if I can convince you that this statement has a biblical basis.

Come back with me to the Garden of Eden and think again about the questions which God put to the first human pair: "Where are you?...Who told you that you were naked?...What is this you have done?" (Gen. 3:9-13). Does anyone believe that God needed to ask those questions in order to gain information for Himself? Of course not, being omniscient (that is, having all knowledge), He already knew what they had done. Then why did He put those searching personal questions to them? Surely the answer must be that the direct questions encouraged them to face something that they preferred not to look at. God knew that before the problem could be dealt with it must be brought out into the open.

Some people may think that by far the best way of dealing with unacceptable thoughts and feelings is to push them back into the unconscious but, as we are now seeing, that is a fallacy. Problems that are buried inside us rather than brought out into the light work to drain us of spiritual energy. It takes a lot of emotional energy to keep things repressed. This is why people who repeatedly use the defence of repression end up feeling overtired. Healthy people are those who, like the psalmist in Psalm 73, bring their thoughts and feelings into awareness - no matter how "unspiritual" those thoughts and feelings may appear to be.