Category — Emotional Healing

I know every parent thinks that their baby is the smartest baby on the planet. I’m no exception I really think Bobby is exceptionally smart. As I have meditated on it lately I have noticed a great deal that we can learn from a smart baby like bobby that we can apply to our Christian lives. How you ask? Well the Bible compares developing Christians to babies, and children, and God as our father. By looking at what makes a smart baby cry out to his parents we too can be smart babies. The following our some reasons that Bobby cries out to his daddy.

1. He’s Hungry
Bobby has a tremendous appetite for food, and when he hungry he has a habit of crying out for food. 1 Peter 2:2 tells us, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. The word of God is a key element for us to grow up in God be strong Christians. If you do not have a daily hunger for the word then be a smart baby and cry to God for him to make you hungry, and to show you things from the Bible that “feed” you.

Babies that are not hungry are said to have a failure to thrive, and yet I think many Christians have this failure, and that is why we are so fleshly. The word of God is:

• A bath that cleans us up (Eph. 5:25-33 John 17:19)
• A mirror that show us to ourselves (James 1:22-25)
• A fire that melts our hardened heart (Jeremiah 23:29)
• A surgical knife that divides our soul and spirit (Hebrews 4:12)

Don’t be a stupid baby fulfill your hunger with the Word of God.

2. He’s Hurt
Another things that makes Bobby cry for his parents is when he hurts himself. Just about 100 times a day Bobby goes somewhere he should not, or climbs on something he shouldn’t , and hurts himself. He has no problem letting us know he’s hurt.

Unfortunately the American Christians have been trained to be stupid babies and so we don’t cry out when were hurt. From John Wayne telling us to be a tough cowboy to preachers telling us just to forget our past we have Christians everywhere with open festering emotional wounds denying that anything is wrong. God didn’t just come to take you to heaven he came that you might have an abundant life there is nothing particularly abundant about Christians who are wounded, mean, and addicted to prescription drugs.

Jesus Christ is The Light and The Balm as the Light he reveals the pain as the Balm he heals but as long as we cover our wounds with the superficial bandaid of forgetting or ignoring he can’t reveal, and he can’t heal. We must cry out and ask his help to heal. Below is a multistep process for involving Jesus in your emotional healing process.

The first step is to ACKNOWLEDGE the need for healing. For us to receive the healing of emotional wounds, we must first acknowledge that we are hurting (Matthew 9:10-13, Revelation 3:17). Many of us have lied to ourselves as well as to others. We have said, “I’m really O.K.” or “It really doesn’t matter that much.”

The second step is to LOCATE the cause of the pain. In the physical realm, we may have a pain in our legs, but the cause may be a pinched nerve in the spine. To operate on the legs would be the wrong procedure. A youth may have severe problems getting along with his peers at school, when the real source of the pain is from an abusive stepparent at home. A wife may feel enormous pain every time her husband disciplines one of the children. However, the pain she feels may originate from her own emotional wounds as a child.

We may unconsciously associate one hurt with another. Furthermore, time itself, does not heal hurts. Only God does! Therefore, with each new conflict, we pick up additional baggage. It is therefore important that we locate and separate each painful experience. This is the work of the Holy Spirit (Psalm 139:23-24).

The third step is to CLEANSE the wound. If you received a deep wound in your hand and you left the wound open, it would sooner or later get contaminated and infected. The same is true in the emotional area. Emotional hurts are an open wound for unforgiveness, anger, bitterness, depression, and anxiety to enter. The Bible implies that we may “give place to the devil” when we are angry longer than one day (Ephesians 4:26-31). Therefore, these critters may be more than just harmful emotions, they may also be evil spirits (Matthew 18:34).

For cleansing to occur, (1) we must forgive those who have offended us, (2) ask God for to forgive and cleanse us (I John 1:9) for our unforgiveness, (3) yield that area unto the Lord, (4) request that God restore our soul (Psalm 23:3) in the area yielded to the enemy, and (5) use the name of Jesus to drive out the enemy.

The fourth step is to Accept HEALING of the hurt. God gives us two distinct pictures of healing in Scripture. One picture is that of God calling off the enemy (Deuteronomy. 7:15). This picture relates to the cleansing of the wound. The other picture is one of mending the net (Exodus 15:26).

After the physician cleanses the victim’s wound, he sews it up so that it will not become contaminated again. Forgiveness opens the door to freedom, but forgiveness is not healing. Without our receiving healing, the wound again becomes contaminated. However, when God mends the wound, He also heals the wound.

We may receive healing by (1) understanding that Jesus suffered all kinds of emotional hurts (Isaiah 53:3) and that he became a hurt substitute (Isaiah 53:4) for us , and (2) believing that Jesus was sent to heal the broken hearted (Luke 4:18), and (3) asking in faith for that healing. When God heals the wound, we may recall the experience without being flooded by the pain.

The fifth step is to STRENGTHEN the weak area. Again, in the physical, the area around the wound may remain weak even after the healing occurs. This is also true of emotional wounds. The enemy will try to get us to focus our thoughts (II Corinthians 10:4-5) on the event that brought the hurt. If this occurs, we may mentally pick at the area until we have opened a new wound.

Therefore, it is critical that we strengthen that area by applying the Word of God. (1) We need to see that God had a purpose in allowing us to be wounded (Genesis. 50:20). (2) We need to see that God can work all things together for our good (Romans 8:28). (3) We need to come to rejoice in the Lord over the experience (Philippians. 4:4). (4) We need to develop and share our testimony with others (Revelation 12:11).

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