Who are we fooling?

A SPIRITUAL INTERVENTION

 Pain, Healing, and Freedom

Life as a Christian isn’t all that easy, is it? We do know how it should feel and should be. The clichés abound. Just give it to God. Living the abundant life.  God wants us to be happy. Trust the Lord and everything will be fine.  It’s God’s will (this one is bothersome).  It can be somewhat provoking when personal experience fails to match the spiritual belief.

We often deny that the Christian life is this way for that would be to admit that there is a problem with us, or worse, there is a problem with our belief system. Aren’t Christians supposed to be happy and victorious? Yes, they should be. This is true. Hmmm. This is getting a little uncomfortably close to home.

I should know, I’ve been watching too. I’ve also been on both sides of the equation. More often than not, if you listen to their conversations you will find the truth of the matter. Christian people often find themselves swimming upstream without a paddle. The dialogue gravitates to an on-going complaint to the negative. Some may be justified. We all have our struggles and conflicts that slow us down or get in the way. But it may be something else.

There could be a reason for the hollow sound in the clichés like when the walk fails to match the talk. This may indicate that there is a need for a change of perspective or a spirit-led soul-changing intervention, a uniting of the human self with its heavenly triune God whereby forcing an end to the mediocrity.

Engagement with God initiates a process through which people will change their perceptions. A work of God in a life, one that is open to His ministrations, will facilitate structural change deep within a person in those places which have become repositories for soul woundings and soul hiding in Christian people. If this happens, when a spiritual awakening becomes real in Christian lives, those spiritual sounding clichés will no longer ring a false note; they will ring true both in our experiences and in our beliefs straight across the board.

We will be secure, content, and able to function even during the hard times. People will begin to take notice. When God is given a chance, when everything is out on the table, something will begin to happen within that will become utterly life-changing real. It is one of those things that a person realizes once the thing has already transpired.

You know you are free once you have experienced freedom.

We may not even know we are not free and that we’ve been under bondage to the thing until change enters, and God begins to heal us, set us free, and begins to open up a new path in the real.

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