The Deep Healing

Introduction

After last week’s post, you may wonder what I’m talking about when I say ‘the deep healing’ or what the deep healing really is, and why you might (or should) want it. That is fair enough. The topic is rather vague for those new to it, and I’m applying my own terminology to describe its expression.

In answer, I can only share what the deep healing is to me and what it has done for me. God completely transformed me, and in doing so, my spiritual walk dramatically altered. It was an inside-to-outward sort of thing. Through a process, God renewed every part of me. The tag line, the deep healing, is an expression to describe what happened to me and is what I want for other Christ followers.

As I thought about the many parts that make up the whole in my spiritual life, I realized that the most electrifying, life-changing, life-altering, spiritually rich event in my life is the single most impactful thing that has ever happened to me in my spiritual life (and is my motivation for writing spiritual material).

This event came via the result of an initial experience in which I had asked God to help me know Him, to help me deal with my stuff, and to heal me if it was at all possible and a right thing to ask (according to His will). You see, even in the asking, I was fearful, hesitant, and unsure of its biblical merits. I didn’t know if what I was asking God to do was, in fact, off limits in the human-to-God experience.

I was locked in a soft-padded cage, a place of rules, safety, righteous living, and spiritual truth, but I longed for more, something lively with newness and fullness. I’d sustained some major hurts and was going right along, coping without complaining. Severe losses hit again, and I was down for the count, trying to stay afloat without crashing and burning.

I was hoping there was a way to become happy again, that the long-suffering could end some way, somehow, and that God would some day meet my inner need and set me free from all that submerged pain. I’d not read much in the way of accessing spiritual freedom. So seeking God for truth and for His healing were unknown entities. They were new undertakings for me, spoken in honesty to God from my damaged, devout, heart of hearts.

An Internal Awakening

God phenomenally answered my request (more on this in next week’s post). This new beginning was just a starting point. God has been continually enriching my life from then to now. While thinking on this a couple of weeks ago, my mind immediately leapt to form a mental conclusion about the matter. ‘The deep healing’ entered my thinking and came out of my mouth. I grabbed a pen to write the phrase down before I would forget it. Last week that slip of paper lay crumpled on my writing desk. I knew it was time to jump in.

The deep healing aptly states the unchained reality I have been living for fifteen years. My world is lived outside the cage. Even though it was not an overly restrictive cage, I am glad to be free of it. Any answers I have shared come from out of this God-focused, God-enriched reality. At the instant I wrote “The Deep Healing” that morning, I knew I wanted to share more on this key concept with you.

I know you may have recognized this topic from my ‘Going Deeper with God’ series. This series is different in its trajectory. I hope it offers life to you.

Healing’s inward penetration along with its effective change in the whole self comes through the sublime utterance of the Holy Spirt, the active seeking of the mind of Christ, and the will of God at work in us.  Spiritual elements are sourced and encapsulated in an ongoing, alive, renewing of the mind, body, and soul, when spiritual life is lived in close, intimate relationship with Christ.

You Have to Want It

The deep healing separates the genuine from the wannabes, the rote learners and rigid followers from the open pursuers and genuine seekers and finders. I don’t mean to be harsh, but much of religious practice is circumspect but lacking in life, practiced but not enlivening to the soul. Like the hardcore faith that it is, the deep healing sets itself apart from doing the religious thing because of its internal enlivening of the soul that seeks God, and through being, God-actualized awareness deep in the core of the individual.

Micah 6:8 (ESV)

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

A gap is soon to widen out from the other variant religious structures such as the performance-based bents and the grace-with-liberty practices. Though different in its essence, it is not separate in its beliefs. You could say, it is in “addition to’ and not in “subtraction from’ a person’s personal, spiritual, Christ-based, beliefs and practices.

Those whom have known the deep healing are a group unto themselves. How so? What separates them from other religious devout or not-so-devout Christians is this. They take their spiritual life one step further into an active pursuit of God. Here’s how. They seek to know God with their whole heart and being.

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Part 3 of  The Deep Healing can be found here.