BURN TREATMENT.

I would like to continue the conversation that coincides with my testimony from my previous post. I would like to break things down a little bit more so that you can get a clear understanding and picture of how we attain wounds in our souls, our hearts, and how we need to treat them so that we can be better, and find relief and freedom. That is why I named this one burn treatment.

When we are out and about living life, our routines, activities, work, you know all that you do. We encounter situations along the way that effect our soul. Offenses, lies, mistreatment, the unfairness of life. All these encounters cause us pain. When we get hurt, depending on what the situation, emotions rise quickly to the surface, causing a fight or flight response. The pained responses, if not handled properly, accumulate in our soul. This then creates our behavior and how we treat other people. I want to call these initial shocks of pain, and overwhelming emotions the initial burn. Like the saying says, you got burned.... Right? Not cool.

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Catch on fire if you must, sometimes things must burn to the ground so that we may grow. - A.J. Lawless

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So now you are full of pain, and anger, and offense, and bitterness towards people, events, situations, and you have all this build up pressure that just stays in your heart. You can hear it come out in conversations with people, when you touch on a subject that is particularly sensitive. Usually, their response will say it all, if they have been pained in a way of that is shameful, they will likely avoid the subject and shy away. If it was offensive, you will not be able to keep them quiet on how badly they were treated, how awful someone was, and how unfair for anyone to experience it. These things happen but we should not keep them in our hearts. This is what I call the infection when the event happened some time ago and the response is still the same throughout their life. They haven't moved on and they are infected with the pain.

Life will burn you, but it is what you do with it that matters. God will help you have the ability to help others go through it too, or even to build up understanding of others. I want to open your minds to the idea that you do not have to hold on to all the pain of life, yes it happened to you but that doesn't mean you have to carry it with you, and hurt others too. We have to learn how to clean the infection and allow God to do what he does and heal our hearts. We do not need to know how he does it, we just need to bring it to him and let him take it, let it go. Let go and Let God! It makes me picture a child with the toy on a string that follows along as he drags it through the house. But, in this instance, the toy is your burdens, your pain. As the child grows it moves on to better toys, ones that help him develop and enjoy life. I want to encourage you to let go of the toy that you are dragging and pick up the toy that is meant for you in this stage in your life.

In my next post I will go over the stages of letting go that we must do over and over so that we may keep our heart clean, and clear in order for us to start living a more joyful, meaningful, and free life.

Be still. Let go, and let God. -psalms 46:10