These 4 Solutions Start Your Healing When You Have A Deep Soul Wound
A “soul wound” feels like an emotional sword. It is a deep, intense crying and pain. It can come from rejection, loneliness, depression, and many sources.
How can you heal a wound you cannot see?
David said, “As the deer pants for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, oh God…” (Ps. 42: 1).
He felt cut off from God. Something had dried up His soul. His deep inner cry rose up like the thirst of a hunted buck.
Healing a soul wound is not simple but here are four places you can start:
Remember the best spiritual moments of your life.
All of us remember our “high places” with God. It may have been a retreat or a revival. It may have been a concert, an amazing message, or a glorious song.
Now, you are dry. Recall those high places. Let your mind and memory roam back to those moments.
Lift your heart, your hands, and your voice and begin to worship God the way you did in that “mountain top” experience with God.
Get in touch with your soul.
Many prayers are just shallow and superficial. They may be mental but they are not from deep down inside.
When something down in you soul is alone and discouraged, cry out from your soul. Go off somewhere where you can verbalize a deep cry to the deep heart of God.
I remember being in the hospital years ago for ten days. From the deepest part of my soul came a praise to God. There, I learned: “The highest praise comes from the deepest part of your soul.”
Ask God to heal your “soul wound”.
There is a place in your soul carrying a “soul wound.” A "soul wound" is the place where someone has attacked you, rejected you, or abandoned you. It has to be healed.
Jesus felt that exact wound. He felt like God abandoned Him, men rejected Him, and mobs attacked Him.
He “gets it” because He has been there. He feels the depth of your pain. Remember His courage, His love, His forgiveness that He carried to heal that deep “soul wound.” Receive His healing.
Ask God to turn on a light in the darkness.
A soul wound is so deep that it’s down in the dark.
The only way to heal it is through “light.” God can shine His light on your soul. His Word can show you what makes you vulnerable there.
Like a powerful light in an operating room, the intense light reveals the path for the surgeon.
Let His Word teach you the precise action you must forgive. Be open to His powerful light revealing even parts of your character He needs to repair.
The result? “JOY.”
When a deep soul wound is healed, you want to go back to church. You want to pray. You want to praise. You want to be with people.
It’s time…to start your way back to joy.
