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.
Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.
It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.
I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.
It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.
Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.
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