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Living is painful. That’s why we often seek to avoid living by distracting ourselves with death-dealing habits. My death-dealing habits are overeating and entertainment. Each of us has our preferred ways of dying.
The thought of dying is frightening, but living—actually living—is even more terrifying.
That’s why we sit in front of the TV for hours. That’s why we scroll on our phones for half the day.
What would life be like if we turned off the TV… put the phone down… stopped looking at naughty things… emptied the bottle… threw away the box of cookies…
I don’t know, because I haven’t fully done it myself. And nothing is more frightening than the unknown. But I suspect it would be rather painful at first, and then it would turn to joy.
We’re promised everlasting life in the Bible, if we follow Jesus, not everlasting death. And that life can begin any time we want it to.
But the only way we can live, truly live, is to allow Jesus to heal us.
Paraphrasing C.S. Lewis, we hesitate to go to the Healer, because He won’t just stop at fixing the one thing we want Him to fix. He will fix everything, even those things we don’t want Him to attend to. He will no more ignore our deepest wounds than a physician would stitch up a cut on your arm and ignore the gaping wound in your chest.
But we can’t stop dying until Jesus heals us. Let Him heal you, and live life.
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