One of the most difficult things to do in life, is to let go, when the Lord is telling us. I learned many years ago, that ACCEPTENCE IS A GOOD FRIEND. This is what the Lord spoke to my heart one day, as I was navigating a space in which it was me holding onto something.
Having been an outpatient psychotherapist, two of my go to therapeutic modalities in the profession that I still use today, are Erik Erikson's 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development, and Elizabeth Kubler Ross's Stages of Grief.
As I've been writing on "The Forbidden Fruit, the Spiritual Disease," over the past 4 years, throughout I've taught on videos that which I've been writing.
When we don't get our identify (form) from God in Christ Jesus, then we will enter spaces, such as relationships, jobs, opportunities, church, etc., looking for ourselves. Therefore, when we lose a space or relationship we've been in, we think we're only grieving that space or relationship we no longer have, when it is also, that we're grieving a version of ourselves that we identified with.
I remember navigating a situation years ago, and as I was out walking, the Lord spoke to my heart, "Robin, ACCEPTANCE can be a good friend."
It was such a profound statement, knowing Elizabeth Kubler Ross's stages of Grief, of Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance, in which there's no order, and going through them, is different for each individual. Many individuals jump from Denial to Bargaining then to Depression and Anger, before moving into Acceptance.
In pondering on this Wisdom, I knew the ultimate aim the Lord had for me was PEACE; Acceptance brings Peace.
In hanging onto things or individuals, we can get sidetracked and think it's those things or those people, who define who we are in life, pulling our identity from those spaces. We have to understand that we are God's and all that we do is of God, and we have to live this life with open hands. We cannot hold onto anything or anyone.
The Lord has you reading this post to ask you this question? Where are you right now in your emotional health? Where are you presently with any stage of grief, in which you're wrestling to hold onto someone or something?
Let Go, and Let God, BE AT PEACE!
God bless!
"Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.]" John 14:27 AMPC
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