Healing Love
This week I came across a quote in the book, Illuminated Heart by Frederica Mathews Green which said that “God’s love is a healing love. A healing love is not always comfortable. It is like a scalpel and can sometimes hurt. It is far easier to avoid an authentic confrontation with God then to undergo his healing touch because of the depths of our soul that it reaches.” This quote has been on my mind all week. What a powerful way to express the difficulty that we often have in confronting God. In prayer God opens up our closets, our secrets, and asks us to deal with our problems. It is difficult to open that part of our heart and become so vulnerable. Often when something is truly bothering me, I find that is when I neglect prayer the most. This has never made sense to me and it is something I am constantly struggling with. Green’s quote offers some answer into why, but that does not make it right for me to do so. Although it is hard to face my demons allow God to truly touch and heal me, it is crucial in my spiritual survival. The operation will not be so hard, however, if I am constantly going under the knife. God’s healing love with just fix me a little bit at a time, rather then going in for a major operation because I neglected to deal with issues that He asked me time and time again to deal with. If I do not bring these things before God, I also will miss what He is calling me to do and I will miss to recognize the blessings that He is pouring into my life. I can’t keep waiting until tomorrow to get things right with God, I need to start right now. We should do nothing until we are right with the Lord. This quote will always hold a place in my heart and although this is something all of us will constantly struggle with, it is something that I will acknowledge and make my first steps to working towards peace with.
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