Emotional and
spiritual constipation
It's when people are
unable to let go of old worthless garbage that causes someone to be unable to
function normally.
Stuff that should be
flushed gets lodged in the way and blocks up the works.
The whole thing comes
to a standstill
Nothing gets in or
out because it's clogged.
Emotional
constipation can be caused by fear, loneliness, depression, etc
Any emotion that paralizes
a person.
Spirituall
constipation can be caused by religiosity, lack of faith, lack of knowledge,
misunderstandings of who God is.
If God is your truth
and He is a god you have made of your own imagination then he has no power and
you are constipated spiritually.
We need a right view
of God, Chip is correct.
When we do not see
God for who He is we get stuck in our own stuff.
God is a God of
love. [not just a God of love, but Love
itself]
If we view love in
terms of our human understanding and apply that understanding to God we lessen
Him. We never realize that there is so
much more of Him than we have an ability to concieve. We see only through our own eyes and walk
only in our own strength in terms of that love.
It is a difficult thing to open one's heart to the potential of knowing
the Love that God is. It is awesomely
frightful because if we examine it in truth we realize that it has the
potential to take over who we are. We
have an understanding that God could actually take us to that very
uncomfortable place of losing ourselves.
Once we see that potential there is a point where one must decide to
walk towards that so that we can die to self and allow Him to live through us.
If we put off that decision, or if we step back and live less than it we become
constipated and everything backs up within us.
We are unhappy and dissatisfied and fairly useless. And eventually it begs the question as to
wether we are truly a disciple of Christ or not. And there comes a moment in time where God
presses in and asks us to step up to the plate, take the plunge, and allow His
love in. A decision worthy of very
weighty deliberation.
Aha! And you thought
that this was applicable to expression of love alone didn't you! Not so.
One must - absolutely must - be able to receive His love before being
able to give it to others.
In fact I submit that
without a complete surrender to God/Love and an open acceptance and willingness
to allow Him to grow and live that Love within us, we cannot be called
His.
So one may be
philisophically inclined to acceptance of this, and yet because of the
emotional and spiritual constipation in capable of doing just that.
Therefore the mind
and spirit must by necessity come to an alliance bringing the will into
submission. The heart, the spirit, the
emotional and spiritual and mental essence of a person comes to a concenses and
can over-ride what caused the blockage.
In effect flushing out the system of old wrong thinking, ineffective
protective measures, and barrier walls built of lies.
The point? This
enternal battle between body mind spirit soul heart, and whatever other term
one gives themselves.
And then there is
this:
God is a God of
passion.
If we view passion in
terms of our human understanding and apply that understanding to God we lessen
Him.
Passion is a matter
of depth and commitment and desire and excitement an delight all rolled up into
one thing. God is passionate. He breathed it into us.
I believe that people
like David - who was a man after God's own heart - are because they are people
of great passion. Passion of character,
of heart, of spirit.
A passion
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