Chapter 12 - Healing a Broken Heart
About a year before we met, a friend of mine had given birth to a stillborn son. One day I began to ask for her perspective on these types of situations that we know are not God’s perfect will and plan. She began to respond by saying that the loss of a baby is something you have to be healed from. Notice the key word “began”.
Having ten kids between the two of us at the time, the conversation was unsurprisingly interrupted and we never found our way back to it! However, that one, simple comment stayed with me. More and more, I saw the profound truth of it. When something happens that shouldn’t have happened, healing becomes necessary. Grief and brokenness are not something you can hide from, wish away, or just forget over time. You must be healed.
If it requires healing, that’s evidence it didn’t come from God, because things that originate with God don’t have to be healed from.
“Does a spring of water bubble out with both fresh water and bitter water? Does a fig tree produce olives, or a grapevine produce figs? No, and you can’t draw fresh water from a salty spring.” (James 3:11-12 NLT)
Everything produces after its own kind. God is love (I John 4:8), He is good, and does good only (Psalm 119:68). He is incapable of evil, and He is also not confused about what is good and what is evil. Religion teaches that God’s definition of good is so different than ours, that it calls evil good. It has conditioned people to believe that God teaches us through pain, loss, sickness, and tragedy, as though He must use and do evil to produce good. “What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.” (Isaiah 5:20 NLT) The truth is that the Word of God and the Holy Spirit were given to teach and correct. (John 14:26; John 16:12-15; II Timothy 3:16)
Bad religion told us God would hurt and break us just to prove He could heal us. He would put us through hell just so He could show up as the hero to rescue us.
