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A flower amidst thorns.
Yes, you can flower amidst thorns.
A thorny relationship can heal and
flower into a more excellent love.
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Life has a way of throwing salt on old wounds that causes them to bubble up to the surface of our emotional consciousness. As we try to control the pain, we place the cause of the pain on the people closest to us and try to control them. If we allow the pain to fester, an infection of evil will set in. There are only 2 paths in life: love and fear. We have the free will to choose our life path.
Free will is a key that can
unlock one of 2 doors: The door of self will open to demonic influence. The
other door opens to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
God takes our understanding and flips it upside down. We would not choose a painful path of growth. The way of humanity is the path of least resistance. Physical salt on a physical wound will only result in preserving the pain. Only the Spirit of God can flip your physical understanding into spiritual wisdom. He wants to heal us from our controlling selfishness and preserve us for eternal life.
Salt on a buried wound is meant to be a healing agent. This type of salt is called: "Life-salt." By definition, salt is a seasoning and a preservative. The life-path of love is designed for deeper and continual growth. There can be no growth without brokenness. You are meant to be a heart farmer who breaks the ground in the fertile soil of wounded hearts. A heart farmer sows seeds in yielded hearts. The seed grows into a bigger heart capable of a more excellent love. A good heart farmer seasons what he sows with "Life-salt."
The
world inherently pours salt on your old wounds reopening scarred tissue. The
love of God is like a river flowing as a balm of healing. Do not be afraid to
go deep into the crevices of pain in your soul. The wound needs to be exposed.
The person who was wounded is not you because you are a reborn child of God.
His mercies are new each day. Your heart can smile again with an infectious
grin that stretches from heart beat to heart beat. Take the hand of Jesus and
visit the place in your soul where you have hidden your emotional scars. Peel
away the layers of control like a tree bares itself in the forest. Expose
yourself to God's unconditional and unceasing love. He will heal you. He will
restore you.
Let go, yield your pain to the Holy Spirit. Ask God to take your desire for control away. Seek to be filled with a more excellent way of love. Pursue peace in your soul. Make your life a continual quest to search for others who need the healing that you have received. Forage forgiveness on all of the days of your life.
Jesus is our "Life-salt."
The Holy Spirit is our "Life-path."
The Father is our "Life-everlasting."
The Holy Spirit will lead you into a space of repentance and healing if you yield your selfish control to God. The dormant wound left unhealed can open the door to the spirit of control. That's dangerous and eternally life threatening. The answer is found in Galatians 5:16-26:
Amplified Bible
16 But I say, walk and live [habitually] in the [Holy] Spirit [responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit]; then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature without God).
17 For the desires of the flesh are opposed to the [Holy] Spirit, and the [desires of the] Spirit are opposed to the flesh (godless human nature); for these are antagonistic to each other [continually withstanding and in conflict with each other], so that you are not free but are prevented from doing what you desire to do.
18 But if you are guided (led) by the [Holy] Spirit, you are not subject to the Law.
19 Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity, indecency,
20 Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies),
21 Envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness,
23 Gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence). Against such things there is no law [[a]that can bring a charge].
24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus (the Messiah) have crucified the flesh (the godless human nature) with its passions and appetites and desires.
25 If we live by the [Holy] Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. [If by the Holy Spirit [b]we have our life in God, let us go forward [c]walking in line, our conduct controlled by the Spirit.]
26 Let us not become vainglorious and self-conceited, competitive and challenging and provoking and irritating to one another, envying and being jealous of one another.
Galatians 5:16-26
The Message (MSG)
16-18 My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God’s Spirit. Then you won’t feed the compulsions of selfishness. For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two ways of life are antithetical, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day. Why don’t you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence?
19-21 It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisf
This isn’t the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God’s kingdom.
22-23 But what happens when we live God’s way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.
23-24 Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way. Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good—crucified.
25-26 Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives. That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.
Thanks for your time. Go do something nice for somebody.
Jesus loves you and so do we.
"Find new ways,
in as many ways,
in more excellent ways,
on all of your days,
to show love."
Bob Kuebler
YWAP Director
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