When Your Past Hurts Still Hurt

Moses was abandoned.

Noemi lost her husbands and sons.

King David was tormented by the jealous King Saul, and he ran for over 13 years.

Job lost everything: his children, his wealth, his livestock, his crops, his health and even the relationship of his wife and friends.

We may not have been physically chased by a jealous ruler back in our day, but I’m sure you can relate to their painful pasts.

One thing that’s true about all of these heroes in the bible is they turned their pain into their purpose.

They didn’t allow the struggle to keep them from following through with living a life full of joy and goodness.

And you don’t have to either, my friend.

The real trouble is we feel so alone in our pain that we keep it to ourselves.

We’ve felt the hurt for so long, we believe the lie that it’s “WHO WE ARE.”

We allow the frustration, uncertainty, and hurtful situations to fester and take up more space in our mind than it should.

Then, all of the sudden, we hear a song, we see a post, or we hear a name and we go from real happy to real sad (then our sadness turns to madness).

It’s a trigger telling you that you have a past hurt that still hurts.

It wasn’t what the person said that ruined your day. It wasn’t the song that was sad.

It was the reminder that your past circumstance is still broken inside of you.

There are two good reasons for this…

☝️ Either we don’t want to deal with the past pain or ✌️ we don’t know HOW to deal with it.

But that hurt turns into anger and bitterness and then that changes our heart.

It changes who we trust and how we treat people. It changes how we treat ourselves.

It creates overreactions and assumptions in our lives, because we are always responding to the situation that happened 20 years ago.

I may not know your hurt,  but I understand hurt.

And I want to say, I’m sorry.

God has freedom for you.
He wants you to use that struggle to strengthen your life TODAY.

If you want to process this wound and heal, God has your answer.

I understand it’s not easy and it can be painful, but it’s possible.
We get to decide the pain that is worth the hurt.

Is it worth the pain of holding on to the past or the pain of working through it?

I have good news, my friend. You can learn to heal from the inside out, and that’s what leads to your freedom.

God has your prescription in Ephesians…Get rid of all bitterness, rage, and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. When someone leaves you, when someone abuses you, when someone mistreats you, it leaves a wound. (4:31-32)

It’s time to acknowledge the hurt so you can heal.

It’s time to heal so you can live your best

IT’S TIME!

 

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