Walking wounded?
In the book, A Long Time Gone by Ishmael Beah, Beah recalls his life as a ‘boy soldier’ in the mid 1990’s during Sierra Leone’s civil war and writes of how as a child of 13 he would fight gruesome battles while high on cocaine and marijuana in which he would feel no pain from the gunshot wounds in his body. It was not until later that he would realize his own injury and start to feel the pain.
In a similar fashion, many of us go throughout the day as wounded people who do not realize our own injuries and festering scars. They may start to show their effects when we are tired or stressed, or when triggers come such as a certain word spoken to us, or event that befalls us.
For instance, how many of us have made a pledge or promise as a reaction against some painful event—without realizing the deep and enduring effect of the pledge? “I’ll never let a man hurt me like that again”—which can lead to a lifetime of trouble with intimacy with a spouse. “I’ll make mom proud of me someday”—and one’s family wonders where one’s desperate, destructive drive comes from. Similarly, sometimes that which is wounding us isn’t so much a pledge as a misguided belief like: “God is perpetually angry with me and disappointed in me”—which leads to searches for self-esteem in all places other than the loving Creator.
In the 11:11 am Faith Infusion service we’ll be dealing with several key causes of such walking wounds, but you can also gain some great help today by asking the loving, heavenly God whom Christ referred to as “our Father” to show you pledges you’ve made or misguided belief’s you’ve held that are causing you to be perpetually injured and without the health Christ has waiting for you. Ask for a change of mind and heart, and receive as a gift—actively, willfully, perpetually receive--the healing of God’s Spirit within you!
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