Pain is often hidden from view because we quite naturally put our best foot forward when we are around others. We often project wholeness and capability. We may believe we have to act like we have it together spiritually.
A SPIRITUAL INTERVENTION
People form masks that are sort of a charade or a pretending which they wear in the presence of others. The masks have their function. We all want to be accepted and respected. The masks help us do this especially when we have an image to maintain. It becomes damaging to live this way if we never recognize the internal state of affairs within our interior self. There can be a lot of garbage that needs taking out!
Those who seek a deepening relationship with God will seek change, and change will come. God uses friends, family, circumstances, and a host of ways to bring us to a place of open talk with Him. This is always good.
A spiritual intervention begins when we get alone with God, take spiritual inventory of everything in our past and present, and then take ownership of our stuff–for the purpose of cleaning house and becoming whole.
Similar in some ways to a computer scan, it ferrets out all the malfunctions. The computer’s malware investigates every single internal document as it lists and exposes the worms and viruses for you to see. Then you can get rid of them for the purpose of the betterment of the computer’s functioning, capability, and the protection of its contents. In God’s kingdom, it takes an honest look that delves into the hidden areas. One must look at the internal with no excuses, blame, or self-righteous attitudes.
The Holy Spirit is able to guide us through this process of looking at each file in our spiritual “computer” core. It is at this place, in the moments of truthfulness with God, that the seeds of holy intervention begin to unlock this inner cell where we have hidden our real selves.
The healing and restoration and newness will come as we begin to surrender our inner selves to God and begin to live our lives in His way. The mask begins to fade away and the REAL begins to change us.
During the process as God refreshes, heals and restores us to health, we establish a new identity with Him. We become father and child in a close, intimate, loving, relationship. A relationship that brings much joy and inner peace.
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