September 3, 2008

• Inner Healing

  Lately God has been making more and more clear to me that He doesn’t just want to be the God our present or the God of our future, He also wants to be the God of our past.  He doesn’t just want to reign in our hearts now, He also wants to reign in all our memories.  He doesn’t just want to take the sins that we commit now, but also the sins of our past.  He doesn’t want to just protect us and help us through current trauma, He wants to take the poison out of the trauma in our pasts and fill the void with His presence. 

  I watch my children and can sometimes see some of the darkness/hurts hidden within them from their pasts.  I know that even if they accept Christ, turn from sin and live holy lives that the darkness/hurts won’t go away.  They might be buried for the most part, but the scars will still remain.  I know God doesn’t want them to carry them.  God doesn’t want us to be only partly healed.  He came that we may have life and have it to the full (John 10:10).  Jesus died for our iniquity (Isaiah 53:5), which includes all the consequences of sin, both the consequences of sins we commit and the consequences of sins committed against us. 

  Psalm 139:12 says, “Even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.”  Its when we open our hearts, confess the hurt and remember the trauma, that God calls us to forgive those who hurt us and to invite Him into the memory.  Let Jesus in.  Let Jesus reign.  He was there in all our darkness.  Only He can bring that darkness to light and bring complete healing.  Its His presence that brings life. 

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