Letting Go: Family Trauma And AddictionSample

Walk Into Freedom

Day 7

I am a firm believer that to get free we have to examine the root issues causing our behavior, and the only way to do that is to allow God to guide us to what is triggering the behavior. God is our creator and knows all things. If we ask Him by faith to show us what is keeping us bound, I believe He will do just that. If we want to live a productive, healthy life we need to be healed and whole. When we can examine our past with clear lenses, it will help us to see what is causing our pain. This will help us to start to let go of some of the survival mechanism we have used and find healthier alternatives , like talking to a friend, praying, or going for a walk. 

You have to set your mind that you’re going to do this no matter how hard it gets. This may require spending some time talking to God and sitting in His presence, allowing Him to stir up some pain that you may have stuffed for many years.

We all have hurts that God wants to heal. I believe this is why so many are enslaved to addictions—because they can’t face the pain. Feeling the pain from your past won’t kill you, but your addiction and stress will.

If we allow God to heal us from rejection, anger, resentment, shame, and unforgiveness, it will allow us to break free and walk into liberty. These issues will not be able to come back and torment us again, because we allowed God to pull them out by the roots.

There is an enemy that would love to destroy God’s destiny for your life, and most of the time the enemy will use people who are the closest to you to keep you wounded. Then we walk around confused thinking, what is wrong with me, that the other person would do this to me?

Are you willing to let God in those secret places you might not even know about? Do you want to walk in freedom? By the way, freedom is not perfection. His way of healing us is a lot different than our way. It has nothing to do with what the world has to offer.

God wants you to know there is nothing wrong with you, and there never has been. Even in the struggles that you are dealing with today, God cares. He loves you that much. We just have to believe His truth about ourselves—and that is not always an easy fight.

Reflection

Ask God to help you identify who has wounded you. When this person wounded you, how did it make you feel? Are you still angry?

Do you need to ask God to help you forgive what this person did to you? How did it affect you and your life? Do you believe something is wrong with you because of what they did? And do you need to forgive yourself for anything?