Are you upset over the treatment you received at the
hands of church people who chose to condemn instead of
helping you?
Or who neglected you when they should have sought you out,
restored you spiritually and returned you to the flock?
Most people who've been wounded in the church could easily
convince a jury it should never have happened. And it
shouldn't! But it did - and reliving it won't change it.
Think: if you were mugged and taken to the hospital, you
wouldn't spend all your time obsessing about the mugger who
beat you up, would you? No, your main concern would be
recovering as fast as possible!
Ironically, with physical wounds we seek help immediately,
but with emotional ones we're inclined to focus on the
problem instead of the solution.
General Robert E. Lee once visited a house in Kentucky where
a very bitter woman showed him the remains of a magnificent
tree the Union artillery had destroyed. She expected Lee to
sympathize with her and condemn the Yankees. But
instead he quietly replied, "Cut it down, dear lady, and
forget it."
No amount of bitterness could change that tree, but it could
certainly change her, and not for the better. Paul says he
begged God to take away his pain until, "He told me, 'My
grace is...all you need'...Once I heard that...I quit
focusing on the handicap" ( 2 Corinthians 12:9 TM).
Quit focusing on your hurt; turn it over to God!
