WHAT ARE YOU PUTTING YOUR FAITH IN?

I had a conversation with someone last week that I have been thinking about all week.  God allowed me to see in full display what a person who is not living in the truth of God’s word looks like and acts like.

First of all, I want to say up front, I am not trying to condemn anyone for their beliefs, but I do feel God would have me speak the truth when it needs to be spoken. 

This person who I was speaking with has a lot of hurt inside of her.  She had an unsatisfying childhood, as I am sure a lot of us have had.  She told me she has been going to therapy since she was five.  From what I witnessed, therapy is not working.  In my opinion if you have been in therapy for basically your entire life and you are still harboring pain, unforgiveness and anger, you might want to rethink your therapist. 

This person was once a beautiful woman externally.  But the pain and anger in her heart that she is harboring inside is beginning to show on her face externally.  Even her makeup has changed!

This person focused on every unpleasant thing that ever happened to her.  Repeated every story over and over again.  It is all she could talk about.  Telling me details of events about people I have never met, nor ever will I meet.  Replaying images over and over in her head.

I suggested that maybe she should try to find one good thing that happened to her and focus on that.  To which I was informed, not one good thing has ever happened to her in her life.  Not one thing good has ever happened to her in her entire life!?

This person believes that if she keeps going to therapy twice a week, she will eventually be happy.  She thinks that if she rehashes the events in her life, she will eventually find closure and be able to deal with it.  This is a lie!  This lie will keep you in bondage!  This lie will keep you unhappy! Philippians 3:13-14 tells us to let go of past and press toward the future.  This is the truth that will set us free.  Leave the past in the past!  Forgive the people and events that have hurt you.  Give your pain to Jesus!  Only then will you be happy.