I talk about this subject already but wanted to quote from the book "Have You Felt Like Giving Up Lately" by David Wilkerson:
Then there is that age-old cliche, "Time heals all wounds."
You are told to hang in there, put on a smile, and wait for time to anesthetize your pain. But I suspect all the rules and cliches about loneliness are coined by happy, unhurt people. It sounds good, but it is not true. Time heals nothing; only God heals!
When you are hurting, time only magnifies the pain. Days and weekes go by, and the agony hangs on. The hurting won't go away, no matter what the calender says. Time may push the pain deeper into the mind, BUT ONE TINY MEMORY CAN BRING IT TO THE SURFACE.
Truthfully, it doesn't help much, either, to know Christians have suffered before you down through the ages. You can identify with the suffering of Bible characters who survived tremendous ordeals of pain. But knowing that others have gone through great battles doesn't calm the hurt in your own bosom. When you read how they victoriously came out of their battles, and you still haven't, it only adds to your own hurt. It makes you feel as though they were very close to God to receive such answers to their prayers. It makes you feel unworthy of the Lord, because your problem lingers on, in spite of all your spiritual efforts.
*What do you think?*
Feel free to comment.
Just to add in my 2cents I feel time is tangible and this is where many people go wrong and God is the intangible.
Lets just say I have been there done that and found out the old cliche "Time heals all wounds and lies like the "Sticks and stones are some of the biggest tools the devil fools people by.
To say words don't hurt contradicts what the Bible states about words.
Anyway...
Posted By: WILLIAM W. HEMMANS III
Thursday, January 12th 2006 at 3:13PM
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