Remember what it was like to be a kid, especially your first few goes on a bike? If your experience was anything like mine, you'd also recall when you came off your bike and hurt your knee, perhaps even broke some bones. What's the first thing we do, besides scream? We put our hands over the wound on the knee and hold down tight. Then Mum comes along and 'wants to see', encouraging us to let go. But that means more pain; washing out the wound, cream that stings, bandages. If we don't do that, then the wound becomes infected and the situation becomes far worse.
Healing comes by dealing with the hurt.
Now consider a flesh wound through a cut on the arm. Amazingly, the body heals itself. But if you go to the butcher, and see the cut meat there, you won't ever find that it will heal itself - it has been cut off from the body! You might rightly call it 'dead meat.'
Healing takes place by being part of the body.
The church is supposed to be known as the body of Christ; a place where healing can take place. Here we have what Luther called: people who are saints and sinners at the same time, or to put it in another way, hurt and healed at the same time. We still have to deal with issues of hurt, but we are learning to become beakers, as we experience healing. Huge amount of medical research has shown that stress related deceases are basically defined by the human emotion called: Resentment. For us to deal with that wound, Christ has taught us about forgiveness called: Release.
Learning to release people who have hurt us is the first emotional step that brings with it healing to the spirit, soul, and body.
Whatever we hold onto, will have a hold on us!
Posted by Dirk Willner
