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Originally Posted by Jack Shephard
I have been hurt by others for sure, but I think I have hurt myself too. There is one situation in my life that I just cannot seem to get over... Well two if I am being completely honest. These two were both where others did something to me. I am not naive and I am almost certain I have hurt others too and I really don't like that I might have, but I have asked God to allow me enough grace to be able to make it right.
I am resloved to the fact that I have questions that will never be answered, but that doesn't stop me from asking them.
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Life experiences will stay with us for the remainder of our life. That is a fact. It is in the recesses of our brains, our thoughts, feelings and emotions. We do not want to have the accusations of "You are bitter" being hurled at us every time these emotions rise up. So, we stuff them as deep as we can to try to hide them or keep them from rising. We recognize that our pain means little to nothing to other people.
But our pain does not go unnoticed by Jesus. He wants to help us get over it. He overcame the pain that this temporal life shoved at Him as it does all of us. When He rose again, His print of the nails in his hands were visible, yet healed. The thing (nails) that hurt him did not disappear, it healed.
Confessing to Christ that the situations are there and that you are having a hard time getting over it is a giant step to healing. Any accusations of bitterness by other people can be shattered by simply saying...I am simply trying to yoke myself to Christ for my healing.
Healing can take some time. It depends on how deep the wound is.
Working in the medical field, I have seen pressure wounds that took weeks to eat the flesh all the way down to the bone. Imagine looking into a hole on the heel of a foot and seeing bone. The pain is excruciating because the infection is to the bone. You know that is going to take a long time to completely heal, but eventually with proper care, that hole begins to fill in with new, fresh, pink skin. There will be a scar reminding you that the flesh was gone, but now it is healed. By contrast, a superficial wound doesn't hurt as bad because it barely scratched the surface. You still have a tiny scar, but it is forgotten because the pain was not that bad.
It is the same thing with emotional pain, only people cannot see your scars. Some emotional wounds are much deeper than slight tiffs and arguments that we have with people. We try to hide those scars by putting on various masks while making a living or being social. But when we go home, we take off that mask, inspect the scars and cry.
Sometimes, people inadvertently reopen an invisible scab before it completely heals. It bleeds and scabs over again. If this happens too many times, infection sets in.
Jesus has a healing hand. He knows what we go through because he walked this earth too and suffered at the hands of man. He can put a barrier stabilizing the scabs until they are healed.
He also came away victorious and is ready to help us become victorious when we yoke ourselves to Him.
This was one of my favorite songs when I was going through a healing process for a major hurt in my life.
CHORUS
I am loved, I am loved
I can risk loving you
For the One who knows me best
Loves me most
I am loved you are loved
Won't you please take my hand
We are free to love each other
We are loved
VERSE 1
I said if You knew You wouldn't want me
My scars are hidden by the face I wear
He said my child My scars go deeper
It was love for you that put them there
CHORUS
VERSE 2
Forgiven I repeat it I'm forgiven
Clean before my Lord, I freely stand
Forgiven I can dare to love my brother
Forgiven I reach out to take your hand
Chorus
We are free to love each other, we are loved
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