Emotional Healing
You are hurt. Not physically hurt, emotionally hurt. Maybe it’s because of a decision YOU made. Or maybe you are the victim of someone else’s bad decisions. Unfaithfulness. Neglect. Careless living. Verbal abuse. The list goes on.
Regardless of how you ended up this way, you have a choice.
1. You can keep re-living the experience that caused your pain.
Or,
2. You can make the decision to PURSUE healing.
The first is the easiest. The second takes more effort.
In the first scenario, you live in the past. You remain angry. Upset. Hurt. Bitter.
Unfortunately, too many people choose this option. They pick and pull at their emotional scabs, keeping their wounds fresh and open for everyone to see. Some people actually enjoy having wounds. They like to talk about their never-ending problems constantly. You’ll see it on their twitter account, facebook statuses, and it even comes right out of their mouth regularly!
In the second scenario, you turn from the past and look toward a healed future in Christ.
Learn from your mistakes, OWN your pain, and keep your head up because healing is in sight. Hope is on the horizon. Don’t wrap your identity around your brokenness or pain. Be careful not to become emotionally attached to the attention you receive when you tell others about your pain. Even if it’s not your fault.
It may not be your fault that you were hurt, but it IS YOUR FAULT if you never heal.
If you are not dead, then there is still an opportunity for healing. You must persistently seek it. You have to WANT to be free from your pain. Emotional healing is within your reach. It’s closer than you know.
“The LORD is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed.”
One Comment
Thanks for that wonderful insight, Bill. There are so many people that hang on to their hurts…sometimes because they don’t know HOW to release them…sometimes because they WANT to carry the baggage. I’m glad that God has taught us how to let HIM carry them.