Healing What You're Hiding
- Dr. Dorie McKnight
- Mar 7
- 2 min read
To begin to heal, we must first locate and identify the pain. We must first identify the who, the what, the where, the when, and the why. If we continue to hide the pain or mask it, the hurt will never heal. Every time someone or something presses against our hurting spot, we will react. These are called triggers. Some of us try to medicate our pain with substances or methods that become addictions. But, we have only traded that pain for another source of pain.
Sadly, for most us, the learning of painful situations begins in childhood. When one doesn’t react to pain, it will concern a doctor. Pain pinpoints the area of adversity and possible abuse. Abuse means I’m being mishandled or exploited. Pain means something is hurting me.
To get to the problem, the area that is hurting has to be touched. Oftentimes we don’t want that area to be touched. We just want the pain to be gone. We just want to take something for the pain. We don’t want anyone to touch those untouchable areas, those sore tender spots. Why can’t God just know what is wrong? Can’t He see that the bone is out of joint? Why does He have to touch it? Can’t He see the redness and the swelling? We just want something for the pain, but does it take care of the problem? No, that is a temporary fix. We need to be healed once and for all. Self-medicating dulls the pain but makes the problem worse.
There are lessons in everything we go through. Our job is to get the lesson and then pass the test. There are reasons for the pain and suffering even though we may not understand why. God knew that whoever caused you pain someone had caused them pain. It takes God to break the cycle. Someone has to blow the whistle on the devil. God doesn’t want us to hide and dance around our past, but the world does. God knows if He heals one, that grateful one will reach back to free others. Even though God already knows the purpose of the pain, He says "Tell me, and I will do something about it."
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