Post by dodi on Oct 22, 2009 6:14:41 GMT -8
I would really like to see what others "hear" or think when they think on this question.
"Do we want to numb out with food or seek total healing from GOD?"
Today i was listening or dialoging with God after not for about a week... (my bad, we are away and I have not had any alone time)...and he reminded me of something a friend had said about being not fully alive. I can not remember her exact wording. But in order to "survive" or "function" she said she was semi numb. I call that being shut down. And I have not yet learned to live fully alert and alive. I am going to share at the end the unedited version of what He said... but as I listened, I realized that I still use food to "numb" or help me "stuff".
Beloved.... it is in the meetings with me that your heart is refreshed and restored...made alive...called into life so to speak...often you think unconsciously that you need to tone down or quiet down numb or void your feelings and senses in order to function... it is really not the best way for when your senses are numbed down then so also is your awareness of me... the pain and the sorrow you carry... for the lost dreams (some of which you are not even aware of).. will not overwhelm u. I know it feels like it will. BUt whenever you are wide open to feel, to be, to do then you are also wide open to hear ME and to feel the sense of my nearness to and with you. I am near you. My Word reminds you that I am always near to the brokenhearted... the fact that your heart is broken in many different ways is what makes u think that in order to live/survive you need to be shut down. that is simply not true. I have promised u will not be overwhelmes, in Isa.... when the waters of grief or sorrow or even fear or sadness come to overwhelm you you will NOT be overwhelmed. I am your life rope and in order to fully live, you can not choose to be shut down.
So HOW do we NOT be numbed out or shut down and STILL function in life when so often life is very hard???
"Do we want to numb out with food or seek total healing from GOD?"
Today i was listening or dialoging with God after not for about a week... (my bad, we are away and I have not had any alone time)...and he reminded me of something a friend had said about being not fully alive. I can not remember her exact wording. But in order to "survive" or "function" she said she was semi numb. I call that being shut down. And I have not yet learned to live fully alert and alive. I am going to share at the end the unedited version of what He said... but as I listened, I realized that I still use food to "numb" or help me "stuff".
Beloved.... it is in the meetings with me that your heart is refreshed and restored...made alive...called into life so to speak...often you think unconsciously that you need to tone down or quiet down numb or void your feelings and senses in order to function... it is really not the best way for when your senses are numbed down then so also is your awareness of me... the pain and the sorrow you carry... for the lost dreams (some of which you are not even aware of).. will not overwhelm u. I know it feels like it will. BUt whenever you are wide open to feel, to be, to do then you are also wide open to hear ME and to feel the sense of my nearness to and with you. I am near you. My Word reminds you that I am always near to the brokenhearted... the fact that your heart is broken in many different ways is what makes u think that in order to live/survive you need to be shut down. that is simply not true. I have promised u will not be overwhelmes, in Isa.... when the waters of grief or sorrow or even fear or sadness come to overwhelm you you will NOT be overwhelmed. I am your life rope and in order to fully live, you can not choose to be shut down.
So HOW do we NOT be numbed out or shut down and STILL function in life when so often life is very hard???