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Deliverance and healing is a process and the word process implies that something will not happen at once. While I want deliverance from the effects of childhood sexual abuse all at once, that is not how God works. My ability for receiving deliverance affects the timing of it.
The race of recovery
Slow and steady wins the race, as the old saying goes. The Apostle Paul compares our walk with Christ to a race in several passages:
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 1 Corinthians 9:24-25
The writer of Hebrews also uses race as an analogy for the Christian life:
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:1-2
A race is not a sprint. A race takes time. It takes endurance. It is not about fast bursts of speed that allow you to quickly cross over a finish line. Healing from childhood trauma and deliverance from its effects is a race and not a sprint. It takes time to heal. As much as I want my healing and deliverance all at once, it just will not happen. While I thought I had long ago made peace with that fact, this week it is clear I need once again to accept it.
How do I accept it? I accept that healing and deliverance take time by committing once again to my morning routine of tapping (emotional freedom technique)*, meditation**, prayer***, devotional reading, and Bible study****. I accept it by committing to a nighttime routine of tapping, Bible reading, and prayer. Sprinkle journaling into both my routines liberally. As a writer, I’m an avid journaler. However, you don’t have to be a writer to be a journaler. You simply need a desire for recovery from childhood trauma.
I refuse to let the fact that my healing and deliverance are not happening instantaneously keep me from continuing in recovery from childhood trauma. I choose perseverance. The dictionary defines the word perseverance as “continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition.” Join me in making a continued effort in recovering from childhood trauma. Let us never give up or back away from recovery. The ultimate goal is becoming the people God created us to be and leaving our false selves behind.
Will you join me in this race?
Further reading
*See my previous articles on tapping:
**See my previous article on meditation:
***See my previous article on prayer:
****See my previous articles on Bible study: