Living With Chronic Pain – Spiritual Fitness – Emotionally Linked To Problems
I certainly understand the importance of feeling and grieving. But when it comes to emotionally linking to your problems, I discourage you from long-term attachment. Because when you emotionally bond with your problems there is the propensity to allow your problems to actually overcome your life. No one wants to be destroyed by the power of problematic outcomes.
Why not emotionally attach to your mental perceptions about God? I know it’s hard to imagine what you can’t really imagine. For when you try to grasp the infinitude of God, it is literally impossible to do this from your own human abilities. At best, Tozer writes, “All our thoughts about Him will be less than He, and our loftiest utterances will be trivialities in comparison with Him.”
But we can connect with Him through His Son and can be revived by the Spirit of Christ. This alternative to emotionally linking with our most tragic problems serves as an excellent way to live life to its fullest meaning. I encourage you to think about this and to conquer your worst fears about the adversity you’re trying to overcome…
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May 7th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
That is an excellent blog Gordon, it is necessary to go through the greiving process and not get stuck in it. Acceptance is possibly the most challenging phase of the grieving process, and at times it seem necessary to work through it repeatedly in order to find the balance in life. Tapping into our faithful and powerful God has given me so much strength and hope, knowing my life is in his hands to lift me up and place me on Jesus the solid rock…gives me a better view on life!