Here I am, once again, facing the death that has never had any closure! My heart is heavy and filled with great sorrow and sadness. This time it is not a physical death that I grieve over. No, the death I am talking about is an ongoing spiritual death. Over many many years it will take a reprieve, but then it will resurface with a painful revenge. My first experience with this kind of “walking” death was when I went through my divorce in 1994. To this day, I have never understood the casualty that people take when entering into a divorce, especially when there are children involved. It is just one example of the death that can have no closure. And in our immediate and extended family it has been perpetuated by the cluttered build up of unresolved anger, hurt, blame, lies, sexual issues, and the addictions to alcohol and drugs. It is a type of death that will continually haunt you and your loved ones, unless you seek the healing power of Jesus!
For those of us who believe in God, I have learned that He will always take our pain and make it work for His good and ours. That is why I am so thankful for the many couples that have not gone down that road of divorce. They have heard my story and received the healing that comes out of their participation in the Clutter Healing Classes. God has used my pain, sorrow and suffering to bring not only healing to me and a closer relationship with Him, but to others as well.
Whether it is a physical death or a spiritual death, there is only one way to experience life in this world and the next. It is based on choosing the One who gives life! It comes down to these two thoughts from Scripture that the Lord has reinforced for me all week. The first is from Psalm 105:4, “Search for the Lord and for his strength, and keep on searching.” This message is such a simple answer to a powerful outcome. To search is to seek. It means each of us is on a journey to search, seek, and find the Lord. It implies that I never stop searching for Him or seeking Him. So when these death defying moments come into my life, the first thing that I need to do is to seek the Lord. He is the only One who can provide me with the strength that I so desperately need to face these deadly situations. As I seek the Lord and His strength, He will then do what Romans 12: 2 tells me. I have shared this Scripture with you before, and I will continue to reinforce because it is at the root of every healing, “Don’t copy the customs and behaviors of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is.” The customs and behaviors of this world are all caught up in death – the anger, hurt, blame, lies, sexual issues, the addiction to alcohol and drugs. The only way to be set free from the death grip of this world’s customs and behaviors is to seek God and allow Him to change my thinking!
I would like to close with sharing two more things that really brought home this idea of death for me this week. First, is this quote from Tony Evans, who is one of my favorite radio pastors. “Death is simply the doorway we must pass through to transfer into the realm of eternal life!”
And second, in preparing to write this posting, I heard this song for the very first time on the radio. I could not stop listening to it on YouTube. It is such a great example of the Lord touching our hearts through music and it further illustrates the message of Him being the only answer to our physical and spiritual death.
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