Disconnection Part 1

We’ve all done it. Faced with a situation that exceeds our level of emotional comfort, we often choose to disconnect from reality. What does this look like? It can be the seeking behavior in addiction, denial, anger, control, perfectionism, obsessing, anxiety, or blame. The list goes on. This type of response to discomfort is the enemies way of keeping us from connecting to God. If we do not connect with God in our times of pain, we choose behaviors that increase our suffering, the suffering of others, and this creates a perceived separation from Our Creator. I emphasize perceived, because God never actually leaves our side, even though we may feel that He is millions of miles away. Feeling distant from God then causes more pain and so we disconnect to cope and the cycle continues. One of the many problems with the choice to disconnect is that we miss out on the healing and transformation that Christ has for us, if we only let Him into the pain rather than push it away. The reason we choose to not surrender is because of our fear and the illusion of losing control. We become convinced that we will not be okay unless we ________ (insert destructive choice or thought pattern). This is where sin comes from. Sin is our way of playing God, when we determine that His way is less than ideal and that we know best. The problem with believing that we cannot survive the pain is that this belief completely contradicts God’s promises to never leave us, nor forsake us, to give us peace, freedom, joy, and healing. Both cannot be true. We are either “healable” and capable of change, or we are not.

More to come :-)