Healing From the Inside Out
Healing form the inside out begins with eliminating our self-focus and reaching for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ that is inside of us. We are living in a time where there is pain all around. A time when sins of being lovers of their own selves have no self-control and no love of Christ. It is time we understand we are crucified with Christ, and live, and it is not because of anything we have done, but because of our commitment and love for Jesus that Christ lives in us. (2 Timothy 3:1-5).
We are living in a time where there is pain all around. We are living in a hurting world where it is hard to find the love of Christ in the lives of people. The stresses of life can cause real physically symptoms such as depression, heart attacks, high blood pressures, gastric problems and even great anxieties. We are living in a generation where our children are struggling. We have become a generation where children are left for long period of time. Our children face social problems such as drug and alcohol dependency, sexual previsions, bulling, a lack of clear direction, goals or even commitments. There is no place for the youth of this generation to turn. Family unity has all but failed. Far too many of our churches are only interested in the money they can bring in instead of helping our youth. Suicide has become the number two killer of our children.
There are no real solutions to this problem of a crumbling society. There is no magic pill that will cure a world that is hurting. The Psychological revolutions have not been able to help the darkness of the heart. Obviously the problem is spiritual and so must be the cure with our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. There must be a healing from the inside out not only for our Christian society but for the families and individuals. There is a reminder found in 2 Timothy 3:1-5 which tells us this time of pain and hurting will come;’This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”
When we look at these warning signs they are really in our face. Lovers of their own self or selfishness rules our society today with every step we take. This includes in our churches, families, and friends. The first step of healing from the inside out then would be reasonable to say we must stop this selfish focus of the almighty self. When we focus on Christ and others is the only way to break focus of being lovers of one’s own self. This can be considered to be the cause of all wickedness, so that they make their own “I” the center of their thinking, feeling, willing, and doing. The moral-spiritual appearance or character of a person should not show they are lovers of their own selves.
Lovers of their own selves leads to covetous (lovers of money), boasters (an empty pretender, a showoff), proud (showing one’s self above others), blasphemers (speaking evil, slanderous), disobedient to parents, unthankful (ungracious), unholy (impious, wicked), Without natural affection (unsociable, inhuman), truce breakers (that cannot be persuaded to enter into a covenant, implacable), false accusers (accusing falsely), incontinent (without self-control, intemperate), fierce (not tame, savage), despisers of those that are good (opposed to goodness and good men), traitors (a betrayer), heady (reckless), high-minded (to blind with pride or conceit, to render foolish or stupid), lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. (2 Timothy 3:1-5). Arrogance, self-importance, conceit, egotism, pride, haughtiness, and superiority all give the illusion of self-reliance and living only for himself. That person would indeed have to be a far more superior at all time and really be a lover of self. When a lover of self cannot gain or control what they desire they can become depressed, have great anxieties even attack their inner self and affect the blood pressure, heart and gastric upsets.
The LORD God is the only source of all good and for His glory should everything be done by us. Those who are lovers of self has the potential of robing us of a lasting relationship with the LORD God as well as leading us away from healing from the inside out. It is only in remembering everything we are or hope to be is possible by the LORD. When we are strong then we should be able to carry those who are weaker not for profit of any kind most of all not to please ourselves. We should carry those who are weaker just out of love for the LORD. Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification. We need to remember that even Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, the reproaches such as Christ suffered, for the cause of God, from his enemies. (Romans 15:1-3). We are all held together by the love of Christ who died for all, that they which live should not live unto themselves, but unto Jesus Christ because He died for us and rose again. (2 Corinthians 5:14-15). It is only when we can feel the peace that comes from loving and accepting Christ as our savior that we can then, and only then, begin the healing from the inside out. Purging ourselves from the love of self and reach for the love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
When one takes into account that because of the love of the LORD God who gave His only Son, Jesus Christ, to die for us we are also dead unto sin, and alive unto the LORD God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore we should not allow sin to reign in our mortal bodies. (Romans 6:11-12). When we fight allowing the haughtiness and arrogance that are the conditions of lover of self to control us and remember we were bought with a price. We should therefore glorify the LORD God in our bodies and in our spirit which are of the LORD. (1 Corinthians 6:20). When we remember that it is not about the almighty self but the Almighty LORD then and only then can we begin to heal our lives inside and out.
You can get no good from such men; nor can you hope to do any good to them: and your whole communication and interacting with them will only produce only pain. Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man you shall not go. If you do learn his ways, and then you will get entrap to your soul. (Proverbs 22:24-25).
We are living in a time where there is pain all around. A time when sins of being lovers of their own selves have no self-control and no love of Christ. It is time we understand we are crucified with Christ, and live, and it is not because of anything we have done, but because of our commitment and love for Jesus that Christ lives in us. When we remember that the life which we live for Jesus and He is in us which is lived in the flesh then we live by the faith of the Son of the LORD God, who loves us, and gave Himself for us. (Galatians 2:19-20). Then and only then can this hurting world begin to heal from the inside out.
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