Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day (Tuesday 09/13/2011)

You Will Never Heal If “YOU” Keep messing With That!

2 Corinthians 6:16-18 Amplified Bible (AMP)

¹⁶What agreement [can there be between] a temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in and with and among them and will walk in and with and among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. ¹⁷So, come out from among [unbelievers], and separate (sever) yourselves from them, says the Lord, and touch not [any] unclean thing; then I will receive you kindly and treat you with favor,¹⁸And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

            I remember when I was a child; I hated to see a scab on me. I thought they were ugly; I did not understand anything about the healing process and how scabs were a necessary part of the healing process in order for the wound to close, be protected free from germs and the possibility of infection.  As soon as a scab would seem as if it was slightly healed, didn’t hurt anymore or I thought it was starting to lift I would begin to pick at it and work it up; my mother and grandmother alike would say “stop picking at that scab, it is not going to heal properly and you are going to have a scar.”  Because I was more concerned with how ugly it looked, sometimes their words would not win out over my need to be scab free. 

This is just like us we will mess with people and things that we know have hurt us, marred us and scarred us, and we wonder why we aren’t healed or delivered.  We will trust people that have not earned our trust and have proved repetitively that they are not trustworthy, but trying to be the “good Christian” or all in the name of not looking like the bad guy, we try to let things go, and again they damage us hurt us and there we are in a place of being injured.  I used to bring home animals and nurse them back to health, and the one thing that hurt more than anything was to have an animal that I saved from death, turn around and bite me or growl at me, now that it was healthy and better, and in the clear, well this is many times what people do, but in both cases they are just showing who they are, what their nature is.  We keep hanging around with individuals and doing things that are often displeasing to God and His plan for our lives and then we wonder why we are still scabbed up, scarred up or wounded, not in a place of forward motion, blessing or overcoming.  Often we are not seeing the correlation that some things and some people are better left alone, they are not good for us in any way shape or form.  Some times as my Grandmother James would say we need to feed them with a long handle spoon and love them from a far.  The command is to love, but not to be senseless about it.  All in the name of being the bigger person, and loving in a sacrificial way, we often set ourselves up to be hurt, especially when we do not involve God in the process of our loving and doing.  Just because it looks like the right thing, and it may even be the right thing it is not always the right ground, season or person.  So that is when we need to pray and get a person of accountability to talk to and keep it moving.

I have seen too many individuals love a person to the point of their own death.  They loved and did and allowed themselves to be used and mistreated to a point where they lost their lives spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and even physically.    We never want to get to that point where we stay in a situation so long that we are bled to death and hurt so much that our wounds take us out (I know because at a time in my life I was one of those individuals)!  We need to be prayerful in all that we do especially where we sow our time, talent and resources and especially our love, compassion and understanding.  The Bible encourages us not to cast our pearls before swine, because a swine does not recognize the value and will trample it.  Well the pearls often are us and all that we have to give, and in many cases people that get close to us for the wrong reasons or are selfish and self-absorbed are the swine that in one minute will let you do for them but in the next moment will trample you when you are before them! People cannot heal us, only God can truly heal.  Our worth and value is not found in people or in our good deeds, we need to get it right before God Almighty and honor him with our lives not people.  If we want healing in this hour it is about our focus being on God and not on man, and being obedient to God, and doing what He calls us to do and blessing those He commands for us to.  If we want to be healed and prosper, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, financially and physically there are some things and some people we are just going to have to stop messing with.  So how bad do you want your healing?