YLife hands us many wounds, hurts and pains that land in our hearts. Sometimes it seems as if our hearts have been cracked or broken. The pain can get so bad that we literally hurt physically. Have you ever been there?
YWhen life dishes out these events that damage our hearts, these events leave blotches and their imprints on us. Our hearts get cluttered by these things. As time passes, these blotches can increase in number and size. It can get to the point where we can no longer recognize our hearts and what should be in them. If we do not deal with them, our identity gets warped around these pains and heartaches of life. We are no longer able to love as we should, enjoy life as God intended it and love others.
YHow do we resolve these heart issues? We must first begin to tear down the walls that we have built around our hearts to keep us safe from any other hurts. The walls not only keep other hurts out, they also keep us from freeing ourselves from the clutter that is in our heart.
YWe read in the Scripture: “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7 NIV We know that Jesus’ blood cleanses us from sin and opens the door to heaven. Yet, we still live in our own little hell here made up of the hurts others have caused us. We are faced with a dilemma. We must open our hearts to Jesus and allow his blood to penetrate to the depths of our being and truly cleanse us from ALL sin, even the sins others have done to us.
YOpening our hearts to Jesus is scary. We are exposing our hearts to God and embracing the hurt so that He can heal it. We are admitting that, Yes this happened, but I no longer need to hide behind it. It has shaped my life too long. Now I am opening all of my interior life to Jesus so that He can begin the cleansing process and bring healing to my life. We are accepting the hurts and allowing God to use them to mold us into the person he knows we can be.
YWe are making a choice to give the hurt to God, letting Jesus free us from it, and letting the pain shape us into a godly person. It moves us into a place of grace, forgiveness and mercy. It is allowing the heart of Jesus to live out of my heart now. This is freeing. I am free from the events affects upon my life. The emotions associated with them slowly begin to fade away.
Y When I remember them, I begin to see the good things that God is bringing out of them. We can do what the Apostle Paul did: “Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” Phil 3:13-14 NIV
Y Our hearts and lives are no longer limited in their ability to love, enjoy life, express our faith and grow in our relationships. We are no longer critical, angry, defeated and blaming of others. The blotches on our hearts have been healed in the power of the blood of Jesus.
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