Healing the Root Problem
God wants to heal your deepest wounds. Will you let Him?
"The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” Jeremiah 17:9
Here's a truth we often don't think about or acknowledge: You will never know the depth of God’s love until you admit the depth of your sin. The need to repent of our sin is the cathartic place where true growth and healing can begin. God's grace and love is deeper than our sin and God’s love never runs out on us, but we must acknowledge the depth of our sin in order to begin the process of healing our deepest wounds.
Our wounds need to be healed to reach our true identity and purpose. God is Jehovah Rapha- God the healer. But in order to heal us, we have to allow Him in to those difficult areas of our lives. Usually these are deep wounds that we have tried to deflect by using something to numb or deflect the pain. It can be a myriad of vices like drugs, alcohol, sex addiction, or gambling that help us cope, but they are only temporary elixirs and eventually the pain returns. Often to cope we will create an image or a false persona that makes us more acceptable to a watching and judgmental world, but this also just creates more pain, because you can't trick your own soul.
To get complete healing, we need to get back to the root issue, which in most cases traces back to a traumatic event, often in our youth. It could be when our innocence was lost through abuse, abandonment or lack of affirmation. Or it could have been something more subtle. We could have had our kindness manipulated. People could have misunderstood our empathy. We could have been forced to remain silent to keep the peace even when our whole being wanted to cry out at the injustice we were witnessing. Whatever the root cause, we must be vulnerable enough to admit we can't heal it on our own, we can only manage it. God can and will heal it, but we need to stop running from Him and instead run to Him. Our sin is what usually prevents us from doing this. But His love is greater than our sin, and we need to do this to reclaim the true purpose for which we were created.
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