Hurting People

It’s been said hurting people, hurt people. I find this to be true. You see, we are a tripart being, comprised of spirit, soul and body according to 1st Thessalonians 5:23-24. We are a spirit, we have  been given a soul and we live in a body. All three parts of our being, spirit, soul and body are housed in the body. We must know that our Born-Again spirit is perfect at the moment of conversion  when we receive Jesus Christ into our hearts. At that very instant He and dwells and resides in our new converted spirit forever, it’s our soul that’s been corrupted being born into a Fallen World of sin. 

1st Thessalonians 5:23-24 reads “Now may the God of Peace Himself sanctify you  through and through [that is, separate you from profane and vulgar things, make you pure and whole and undamaged – consecrated to Him – set apart for his purpose]; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept complete [ be found ] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

vs 24 Faithful and absolutely trustworthy is he who is calling you [ to himself for your salvation ] and and he will do it [He will fulfill His calling by making you holy, guarding you, watching over you, and protecting you as his own]” Amplified version. The King James version says He will sanctify us wholly in the place of completely. I like that becauseJesus Himself , the One who called us, takes it upon Himself, will do this in us with our cooperation; we become whole in and through Jesus Christ. Meaning, no matter how broken, bruised, hurt the soul  of a person has been, Jesus, who has called us will heal, restore and make our soul whole to the point where it is aligned or matches our perfect Born-Again Spirit. 

Oftentimes, if you notice the words, even our interactions with others will ensure we are recreating or reenacting that brokenness of our soul and that spirit that was released against us in our lives. If not mindful, we can inadvertently or subconsciously re-create the same atmosphere that was so hurtful and damaging to our souls. The very thing we hate, we do. 

Romans 7:19 “For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do–this I keep on doing” (NIV).  

If the Lord does not bring it our attention, we continue to speak and act out of the position of a sinful heart; offense and spirits that were released against us; and now we, in turn, against other people. For we are “speaking spirits” who have been given a soul, housed in physical body. The majority of people are not aware of this, yet it is so. Unfortunately, Satan, the enemy of our souls, takes advantage of our ignorance to keep dysfunctional cycles of pain and brokenness operating in us and our lives. This robs us of the blessed life that we have in Christ Jesus as “children of God.” But, this does not have to continue to be so, we have been given the power of choice to break the enemy’s influence in our lives once we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior and adhere to the Word of God. 

In the book of Romans, it emphasizes the “gospel of the grace of God” that came through Jesus Christ. Whereas we are no longer under “the law” nor bondage to sin and its effects. (See background scriptures at the end).

Matthew 12:34 reads “Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (NKJV). 

In others words, out of whatever the heart is full of, will overflow out of the mouth. We know what’s in our heart and others when we open our mouth, because it will leak out due to the heart being full (abundant) of words that are spoken forth. The heart cannot hide or withhold for long, that’s because of the amount stored or built up in our hearts; along with the effect words have had on our soul.

Let me share some real life examples.  Say for instance we interact with someone, and before long they sound as though they have lost enthusiasm and hope, words of hopelessness flow out of their mouth, there’s a sense they’ve been disheartened  or what some may call demoralized, put down, dejected or rejected.  There’s a good possibility that somewhere down the line their life (soul’s) experience has been that someone has caused them to lose confidence and hope. More often than not, this occurs during childhood; the formidable years of a human being’s life.  The problem comes in because the soul is the part of our being that  contains memories and experiences to our misfortune. We continue to carry  memories of our experience in our soul. We then carry on to speak and behave out of what’s been done to us; we interact with others the same way we have been treated. Therefore, it’s no surprise that someone that has been demoralized or dispirited, lost enthusiasm, hope, or confidence has a tendency to spew the same words and spirit upon another person.  Unfortunately,  this person opens their mouth and now they have the tendency to demoralize, cause another to lose confidence, lose enthusiasm and hope because of the words that flow from their mouth out of their heart; they are reenacting what has been housed in their soul. This is just one example amongst countless unending ways that we interact in our relationships with other people;  whether an intimate relationship or just in passing. But there is hope, God has given a solution found in His word. You see, God knows what we have gone through, He saw and heard everything being said, He was there all the time. That said, we can find healing, deliverance, and restoration for our soul within the word of God. 

Psalm 19:7 reads “The law (word) of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; 

the testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple (NKJV).  

It is in reading and meditating upon the word of God that converts the soul from its hurts, mistreatment, oppression, demoralization and so on; and provide the healing balm our soul so desperately needs. Whatever the case may be the solution and liberation is found within the word of God. Before long we will find our soul begins to align with our perfect Born-Again spirit. 

Too, keep in mind that we did not get the way we are overnight; therefore, it will take  time, commitment and consistency in the word of God to apply it to our soul as needed.  We must let the seed of God’s word become planted and rooted in our hearts in order to bring about change, the converting of our soul. 

Let’s go further and be more specific; because  we cannot afford to be broad nor vague; we need to be precise when searching the word of God for the healing and restoration of our soul.  

Psalm 42:5 reads “Why are you cast down on my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? 

Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance (NKJV). 

His countenance being that God’s presence is with us, and His face and attention is towards us.  It’s clear in this verse that God wants us to begin to Hope in Him where there has been hopelessness, or where we’ve placed hope in man that has let us down and /or mishandled our soul.  What our heavenly Father is saying  in this verse and those to follow is to place our trust and hope in Him; areas of our soul and life that ONLY belong to Him and not another human being. Though God gave the responsibility to people, such as; our parents uncles, aunts grandparents and so on; they too were born into a fallen world. Therefore, it’s no surprise that they too did not always know how to handle us properly;  people do what they know to do, learned behavior.  However, there comes a point where we put our confidence in another human being; we now begin to roll or shift that confidence upon the Lord, only. 

Psalm 118:8 reads “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man” (NKJV).

And for those of us that may be “starstruck” or put our trust in people with titles 

Psalm 118:9 reads “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes” (NKJV).  Let’s eat some more, shall we! 

Psalm 62 goes on to say

vs 5 “My soul, wait silently for God alone, 

For my expectation is from Him. 

vs 6 He only is my rock and my salvation; 

He is my defense; I shall not be moved. 

vs 7 In God is my salvation and my glory; 

The rock of my strength, 

And my refuge, is in God.  Psalm 62:5-7 (NKJV)

There are an innumerable amounts of scripture that address the converting and restoration of our soul, this was just a short taste or snippet to hopefully wet your palate. 

The Word of God is our healing balm of deliverance and restoration of our soul. We can take comfort in the truth of His word, His power and His faithful character to do in us and our lives what He says He can and will do, Amen! 

Background scriptures:

Romans 6:3 reads “Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We we accepted Jesus into our hearts as our Savior, the Holy Spirit baptized us (supernatural placed us into Christ’s Body). Jesus was also buried through the baptism of His death in the grave. And like Jesus was buried unto His death, so are we buried along with our old life into His baptism of death. Our old man and the life dies, we are then dead to sin and its desires.

vs 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death,

that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father,

even so we also should walk in the newness of life.

vs 6 Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, 

that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

vs 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.

vs 11  Likewise you also, reckon yourself to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our lord. 

vs 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lust (desires).

vs 13  And do not present your members ( i.e. body parts mouth, eyes, hands, feet and so on) as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourself to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 

vs 14 for sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law but under grace. – NKJV

I pray this blog has enlightened and been a blessing to you and your walk with the Lord, Sis Bea