昨天我们说只有揭露了的问题才能够获得解决。这只是空话还是有圣经根据的理论？且看我今天是否能说服你相信这是有圣经基础的一句话。

让我们一起回到伊甸园，再次思考神向始祖发出的问题：「你在哪里？……谁告诉你赤身露体呢？……你作的是甚么事呢？」（创三9-13）。是否有人认为神需要提出这些问题才能够得到答案？当然不需要。作为全知（也就是拥有所有知识）的神，祂已经知道他们俩做了甚么。那么祂为甚么还要向他们提出那些尖锐的问题呢？答案是鼓励他们面对这些他们宁愿逃避的事情。神知道在问题得到处理以前，必须先将问题揭露。

有些人可能认为处理不能接受的思想，最好的方法是将它们推到无意识去，但我们今天的信息告诉我们这种做法是非常错的。埋藏在我们里面而没有揭露出来的问题，只会令我们失去属灵能量。要压抑事情其实需要很多感情的能量，正因为这样，一再使用压抑防卫的人最终会感到筋疲力尽。健康的人是好像诗篇七十三篇的诗人一样，将思想和感受带到意识里去，尽管它们可能会显得「不属灵」。

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.