How can our emotional wounds interfere with our spiritual growth?

Question

I am doing bible study now and I'm trying to see what you think of this question?

Answer 1

Emotional wounds keep us self-conscious and in the victim role. Once we allow ourselves to repent and release the deep hurt to God, God cleaves us of the bondage of bitterness, resentment, pain. Then we become a survivor/victor over our past and finally become God-conscious, ready to serve God for His glory.

Answer 2

Emotional wounds interfere with spiritual growth when you allow them to make you feel like you've been victimized. A victim attitude inhibits spiritual growth.
"Emotional wounds" indicates victimhood just by the expression, which indicates that you believe something outside of you affected you. It doesn't allow for the fact that you chose to react to a situation by choosing to feel victimized.
You've got to step back from the victimhood attitude to get any spiritual growth out of any aspect of your life. You're responsible for your perceptions and reactions. Choose to make emotional upheavals a learning experience as you learn to control and change your emotions, and you will experience spiritual growth.

Answer 3

Emotional wounds hold us back if they do not heal properly. We may become bogged down in the past, something that happened to hurt us that we cannot get over. They can stunt your spiritual growth because you cannot grow as a person before you lay the painful past to rest.

Answer 4

I spent the last 5 years of my life with emotional wounds that shut my life, and my kids lives out of being close to God. I could in my own time write a book about this. It played a hugh part of my life. I was so emotionally wrapped up with my own sorrows and worries that I didn't even think about God then. It got worse and worse over time. I lost my sweet personality and my kindness for other people. I basically stopped living.

Answer 5

Emotional wounds till healed become part of our mind set, and whatever isnt encouraging us to spiritual growth is distracting us or actually pulling us away from it.
Emotional wounds can come from; persecution for your faith (and worse for ones lack of it=being a hypocrite), failure to leave the past in the past, failure to forsake sin, worry over past, present and or future, broken relationship, and anything that wounds us emotionally

"Cast all your cares upon me for I care for you II Peter 5:7

its a choice carry your emotional wounds or give them to Jesus--- which do u think is better for you or me

Answer 6

This is an overly deep inspiration that could take plentiful dialogue to reply wholly. I am no longer definite I can safely deliver an reply Scars & Beliefs could make us or holiday us. It's the way in which we reply to the reviews in existence that sort our direction or our result. If we permit our feelings force ideas and movements we create a fact. Ultimately it is all approximately offerings. Am I a human having a non secular enjoy or am I a non secular being having a human enjoy? What is fact besides?

Answer 7

'cuse its late, I can't seem to come across the actual location of the story in the bible...

...but Jesus came across a cripled man who was lying near water...this water would, once a year, cure the first who would enter it when it swirled...

for decades this guy just sat near the water, in horrible pain, waiting for the swirl and every year someone would jump ahead of him and get his healing...

...when Jesus came along and saw this, His lesson was that eventually this guy got comfortable enough with his pain that He just really didn't try to go for the swirling waters any more...

...that's the same with our emotional wounds today...they are wounds that can be healed...

...but we become so comfortable in our pain that we just don't go for that healing water that God has for us...


...and its tough to help those who are wounded when we are not yet healed from our own wounds

Answer 8

Ah, finally, a question worth no "phooeys"

As a rose bush is in need of grafting and cutting in order to make it bloom, so wounds are to the spiritual advancement of our souls.

Answer 9

Immensly!!

Too many times we base God on what we feel. We constantly say we don't feel God. God isn't something that we just turn to and see, He is in our hearts. His word states that He never leaves us, but sometimes faith just isn't enough when we are in the tough times.

Emotions can drag you down to the point that your relationship with Christ suffers. Once you realize that you have to seperate emotions from your relationship with Christ, you see things differently.

We are human, God has emotions too, He just controls them better than we do LOL.

Answer 10

Emotional wounds don't allow you to grow because they hold you back. That is why it is important to rid yourself of the emotional baggage so that you can grow to your full potential.