And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.
Interpretation
Forgiveness is essential for healing emotional wounds.
This quote by Corrie Ten Boom highlights the universal nature of hurt and the common pathway to healing through forgiveness. It suggests that regardless of oneβs personal experiences, the act of forgiving those who have caused pain is a crucial step towards emotional recovery and peace.
In practice
During a sermon about healing, one could use this quote to emphasize the importance of forgiveness.
We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in Godβs work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.
Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.
God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART
Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.
You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
The truth is, those who diligently seek to learn of Christ eventually will come to know Him. They will personally receive a divine portrait of the Master, although it most often comes in the form of a puzzle - one piece at a time.
It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.
Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.
Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.
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