God desires healing

I don’t know about you, but I know that I have gone through some things in my life that I have been embedded into the back of my mind. Those types of memories that you try so hard to suppress, but then when you think all is well, they reappear.

To be honest with you guys, that happens to me way to often. In those times of stillness, those thoughts of pain and hurt would resurface. For so long, I believed that it was Satan trying to cause me to fall. I would get so mad and upset at that fact, of having to face what happened to me all over again.

 But today, I was reading a blog and the specific post was about self-harm. This post changed my whole perspective on why these specific memories keep coming back. One part of the recovery process was to begin to accept what happened and to think it through. How did it make you feel, what did it change about you… etc. So once you get past all that, you try your hardest to just forget about it like it never occurred. But in reality….

It did.

And it hurt you pretty bad, if it caused you to harm yourself. This event is a part of you. Whether it be rape, molestation, divorce, abuse or even neglect. There is a long list of things that could have caused you to get to that point. But once you have gotten through that you try to move past it all. It gets pretty hard when these thoughts keep coming into your mind. The way that they put it was so plainly and I absolutely loved it. I knew that I needed to share it with you.

“When old wounds resurface, I need to remember that God wants to do a deeper healing in my life without the need to harm myself”

How profound and amazing is that. Whether you have a past with self-harm, you still have those resurface moments.

God wants to take us deeper. God wants us to be healed, He desires for us to lean on Him for this. This shows His divine love and compassion for our brokenness, that He would want to further our healing.

We must accept the fact that we will never be the same, but we do not need to settle for the pain that is found after it. You are not alone in your suffering. Christ has a plan and a want for you to be healthy. What He desires most, is for you to give Him your brokenness and trust that He will fix it. He is so powerful and magnificent but yet He wants to hold our hearts?

That absolutely blows my mind. The Creator of the universe desires a relationship with me? No way. It’s true though. If you are dealing with resurfacing occasions, remember this: God is just healing your wounds. Don’t let Satan use it as a foothold to bring you down. In Christ, you are strong and are capable of recovery. Surrender it over to Christ, and you will finally find a peace that passes all understanding. Be encouraged.

“The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. The righteous person may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers them from all; he protects all his bones, not one of them will be broken.” Psalms 34:17-20

Freedom to Struggle.

Hey guys, my heart has been burdened with something that I feel like needs to be shared.

If you have followed my blog, you know that God has given me a passion for the broken. I found this out after dealing with a broken heart of my own. A heart that held a lot of pain within itself yet never realized that it didn’t have to carry that burden at all.

You may ask me, what do you mean by that? I’ll tell you.

I had searched for hope in this world and found nothing. I looked for an escape route in anywhere but Christ. I held it in and put on a mask that I felt covered up these emotions that no one could ever know about. If you have struggled with any form of sadness or pain, you know what I mean.

I put all of this extra pain on myself just by keeping it all in. Let me introduce you to a saying that has utterly changed my perspective on things. One of my favorite bands is Tenth Avenue North, and they say it plainly.

“In Christ we are free to struggle, but we’re not struggling to be free.”

I love that. I absolutely adore that.

In Christ we are free to struggle! We are free to have problems that we are confronted with on a daily basis! Isn’t that liberating?! We have the God of the universe on our side, and He will love us no matter what we have gone through or struggle with.

I know when I was in that pit of sadness and depression, I felt as if I had to fight to be free. I had to fight to get out of that pit and get over that struggle. But Christ says, that you are free to struggle and that we are also free in Him.

You will never be freed from a sin that you deal with until you come to the realization that it is only in Christ that we can overcome it. We are merely humans, and that makes us completely incapable of freedom. So often Satan places these temptations in our paths because he knows that it is our human nature to fall into it.

But Christ says to guard your mind and mouth because Satan is out there only to steal, kill and destroy. That in Him we can have life and have it abundantly (John 10:10). Overcoming temptation with a struggle is not an easy task, but we have one thing as Christians that others don’t. We have a gracious and forgiving Father who so passionately loves us. We are not free to abuse this, otherwise our motives for salvation are wrong. But rather, as we begin to whole heartedly pursue Christ with all our hearts we will begin to desire what He desires. Yes, temptations will still be there but Christ encourages us with His word.

“No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.” 1 Cor. 10:13

I have that posted on my desk, right above my laptop. You want to know why? I have nights to where I struggle, and that verse is what keeps my eyes on Christ. You are not overtaken, Christ provides a way out. Don’t struggle alone, tell someone and let them help you through it.

There is freedom in Christ! I hope you are encouraged.