What's the Point of "Healing," Anyway?
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Ever wonder what your purgatory and heaven will be like, assuming you’ll get there? Where we end here limits and determines our “there…” (Eccl 11:3).
Bracing against and ignoring pain does not protect you from it.
It simply delays and compounds the inevitable confrontation and makes the struggle more difficult. In the meantime, we stay trapped in hurt and fear, missing most everything Christ suffered and died to give us and limiting our heaven.
Healing isn’t an abstract application—it’s about living lighter, loving and being loved deeply, and experiencing true joy and freedom.
A listener asked why anyone would want to undertake more healing if it only involves more suffering?
It’s such an excellent question I’m dedicating an episode to inspiring you to “take up the cup of salvation and call upon the Name of the Lord” so that your purgatory is as painless as possible and your heaven is maximized.
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L | Listen (Receive the Word via audio or video.)
O | Observe (Connect the passage to your life and recent events.)
What was the most surprising thing you heard in today’s episode? Is it comforting, or daunting, to know “healing” is inevitable?
V | Verbalize (Pray about your thoughts and emotions.)
Remembering that He loves you and that you are in His presence, talk to God about the particulars of your O – Observe step. You may want to write your reflections in your LOVE the Word® journal. Or, get a free journal page and guide in the right-hand margin.
E | Entrust (Rest in the Word.)
Dearest Jesus, illumine my eye, speak to my ear, that I may see and hear You word, and be healed. Amen +
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What We Discussed | Show Notes
Overview:
Minutes 00:00-12:00 – Book club in the Community; just more punches and knocks; “healing is the entire content of redemption” (BXVI); attachments; sin and woundedness
Minutes 12:01-24:00 – fear vs. fear of the Lord; holiness as transparency; “you will pay the last penny”; what “residue of sin” looks like
Minutes 24:01-36:00 – now or later?; purgatory and sanctification; the love artery
Minutes 36:01-48:00 – Eccl 11:3 and the finality of our choices; purification is individual, generational, timeless, and collective
Transcript
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