”If the Son sets you free, you are free indeed.” —John 8:36
People hurt us. When does their power to wound you stop? When you can go back, see where you were, see the ugliness, see the person who harmed you, and you don’t react like you used to.
That pain doesn’t control you anymore.
You must take ownership of that pain or it will own you.
Does that mean your tears stop? No. But you weep because these are burial tears.
Don’t posture your heart or soul in the pain. Think sandwiches.
Bread. PeanutButter+ Jelly. Bread.
Bread. Ham + Cheese. Bread.
Past. Pain + You + People hurtful. Past
No longer do you need to be trapped inside your pain by hurtful people. Sandwiched within the confined bread slices of your past.
Instead, your life can look like this:
Present. Jesus + You + God. Future.
Jesus replaces the pain and hurtful people. Jesus completely covers you. He comes to set you free.
Be healed. Be whole. Take back what the enemy has stolen.
Take his gift of freedom. Jesus died on the cross to set you free. The enemy wants to keep you bounded within the grips of his lies inside those bread slices with this lie: That you can never have a different present and future. But Jesus’ death and resurrection changed all that. Take this Real Truth and run in freedom.
Your pain, people hurting you, and past doesn’t own you anymore.