Tonight we talked about being wounded during youth.
There are many ways that we are wounded: physically, mentally, and spiritually are the main three. And there is a high probability you have had at least one of these happen to you.
A physical wound is easily recognized like a bike crash, or on a more serious side cancer. These wounds (the extreme ones) are usually questioned ie: Why did this person get cancer? Why did they die? and so on. But the others are sometimes harder to spot and harder to understand.
A mental wound is a lot harder to recognize than a physical one, mostly because it doesn't usually show on the body. Mental wounds include mental illnesses and other wounds that go with that. They can very detrimental to the people who have them and they tend to become disengaged with the world.
The final wound, a spiritual wound, is probably the hardest to fix. This wound is one where you feel as if God has deserted you and that you have been left to fix your problems alone. This one's hard to fix because most people become depressed during this time and they don't want to share with their faithful friend that they have begun to question their beliefs and need someone to talk to about it.
People begin to disengage themselves after they've been wounded in anyway, but what we have to remember is that God was wounded so many times by us and He has never deserted us.
When you become disengaged you tend to push people away and you could push them to the edge. If you push them to the edge you need to be prepared to pull them back. To do this you first need to ask God's guidance and then you need to go apologize to that person and be prepared to listen to their side of the story and see how they felt.
Why is it tempting to follow your own direction rather than God's?
Here is my answer, but everyone has their own opinion.
It's easier to follow our own direction because it isn't set. We can shape our rules when we mess up, but God's rules are never going to change, they are always going to stay the same and they may be hard to follow at times, but they are there for a reason.
Love,
Natalie
There are many ways that we are wounded: physically, mentally, and spiritually are the main three. And there is a high probability you have had at least one of these happen to you.
A physical wound is easily recognized like a bike crash, or on a more serious side cancer. These wounds (the extreme ones) are usually questioned ie: Why did this person get cancer? Why did they die? and so on. But the others are sometimes harder to spot and harder to understand.
A mental wound is a lot harder to recognize than a physical one, mostly because it doesn't usually show on the body. Mental wounds include mental illnesses and other wounds that go with that. They can very detrimental to the people who have them and they tend to become disengaged with the world.
The final wound, a spiritual wound, is probably the hardest to fix. This wound is one where you feel as if God has deserted you and that you have been left to fix your problems alone. This one's hard to fix because most people become depressed during this time and they don't want to share with their faithful friend that they have begun to question their beliefs and need someone to talk to about it.
People begin to disengage themselves after they've been wounded in anyway, but what we have to remember is that God was wounded so many times by us and He has never deserted us.
When you become disengaged you tend to push people away and you could push them to the edge. If you push them to the edge you need to be prepared to pull them back. To do this you first need to ask God's guidance and then you need to go apologize to that person and be prepared to listen to their side of the story and see how they felt.
Why is it tempting to follow your own direction rather than God's?
Here is my answer, but everyone has their own opinion.
It's easier to follow our own direction because it isn't set. We can shape our rules when we mess up, but God's rules are never going to change, they are always going to stay the same and they may be hard to follow at times, but they are there for a reason.
Love,
Natalie
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