The healing process!

This morning I couldn't help but relate God's healing of us and his shaping of us to my experience today.

As I said before, I am going to PT to correct a long time issue. What I am dealing with is not a very commom issue. Fortunately my PT, Sherry, will not give up in solving my issue. She will use the gifted mind that God has given her along with continuing to research the issue. All to end my visit today with some searing pain. As I held my muscles while she inflicted more searing pain I finally came to a mental point to just relax all the muscles. Her ultimate intension is for my pain to be gone.

As I was driving home I thought how very much that is the way the God works with us. We have a problem that we want fixed, we go to him in prayer asking him to fix it for us. As he begins to work it in our life we begin to feel the pain - we can tense up and refuse to let him work or we can take a deep breath - relax - and let God do his work. It may continue to hurt but in the long run we will be better than before.

The key is - we have to allow God to work us through even though there is some pain involved. I am suppose to do some exercises in between visits. Doesn't that sound a alot like God working on us. Here, I'm going to help you fix your issue, but you will need to participate in it as well. There will be things that I need to show you in your life that you will have to change. You will not be the same as you were before - but trust me - it will be worth it in the long run.

I look back on my journey these past years. I look back and I can see the pain and hurt. I remember it well, but it doesn't stay there causing more pain anymore. It was a part of my life that God used to shape and refine me. Thus bringing me to where I am today and even to blogging. Seriously, I would NEVER have opened up my heart like this before. EVER! Isn't God funny:)

I think that people are looking for "real people". Here is an excerpt from a book, written by an athiest (now a Christian). He states "Call me a crazy-maker but when I am real, all I want is for someone to be real with me. The fact that someone would show a superhuman side all the time is both maddening and frustrating. If every conversation simmers to me and the problems I face, it's as if I am the only one in the room who struggles with life. We are all broken; just some of us are willing to wear it on our sleeve." (by James Lander; Running @ the Speed of Life") Can't you hear the Holy Spirit already working on this man?

I believe that is what God is trying to teach me. BE REAL!
I don't have it all together; although I feel wayyyyy more together since God has shaped me so much. Being shaped by the hand of the Almighty is both painful and beautiful. (Sort of like having a baby - without an Epidural)

We have to stop fighting the shaping that God wants to do in our life. Give God complete permission to come deep into your core to refine you. Fire will come but oh is it worth it!

God's peace!