Do you want to hold onto your pain, or are you willing to let go of it and heal?

• By candidasullivan
• November 19, 2024
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The enemy wants us to hold onto our pain. Every day, he wants us to think about it and relive the painful moments over and over. If he can get us to stay in the pain, we won’t heal or let go of it. Sometimes, he even convinces us that our pain is a badge of honor and we are supposed to carry it always.

God will heal it all if we give it to Him and allow Him to take it.

I remember the first time God presented a different perspective to me. He asked me why I wanted to keep my pain and punish myself every day.

At first, His question made me mad. I wasn’t choosing my pain. The amniotic bands attacked me, scarred me, and forever changed my life. The pain chose me. Didn’t it?

Yes, but.

God wanted me to understand the power of the but after the yes. Terrible things happen to us sometimes. While we can’t control what happens to us, we can decide how we want to respond and what we choose to believe. We can give God every ounce of our pain and allow Him to heal us. BUT only if we are willing to let go of the pain.

For a long time, I didn’t realize that my pain was serving me. It was my excuse. I could use it anytime I didn’t want to do something. I could use it as a way to stop living and to stop even trying.

The pain was also my self-inflicted punishment. I blamed myself for what happened to me, so I thought I deserved the pain. If only I could have prevented it, I wouldn’t have to live with it. Living with it was my life sentence.

But God broke all the chains that bound me and restored my life. He helped me gather all the pieces and become willing to let them go.

I let go of the disappointments.
I let go of the blame.
I let go of the guilt.
I let go of the excuses.
I let go of the feelings of unworthiness.
I let go of the pain of being different.

I accepted what happened to me. I realized that no amount of grief or resistance would change it. I even got a place to where I believed that it was supposed to happen to me. Why? Because it did.

And here is the really powerful part.

I asked God to show me how to use it for good.
I asked Him to change my perspective about what happened.
I asked Him to help me overcome it, instead of just surviving it.

Our pain can be a stumbling block or an inspiration. And we get to decide.

Letting go doesn’t lessen what we’ve endured. It empowers us.

When we take the hardships the enemy throws at us and learn to use them for good, we give meaning to the pain. We honor what we’ve been through and allow God to bless it, bringing glory to our Lord.

Sweet friends, when we give God our pain, it no longer has the power to hurt us. God turns our heartaches into blessings.

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