Healing

I mentioned last week (two post ago) that the youth (myself included) were putting on a Youth Evangelism Weekend.  This past weekend has been such a blessing to me, and a reminder of what it means to be the Salt and Light of the World.

Friday, Pastor Fred Mok spoke about how we can be the salt, or otherwise healers.  He mentioned that there are three different types of healing :1)physical, 2)spiritual, and 3)death, I will be speaking of the last one because that it where it hit home.

When he was speaking of death, he wasn't just talking about the physical death, but the death that happens in relationships.  The first death of relationship happened when Adam ate from the forbidden fruit, his relationship with God was then compromised.  This sin has affected all of us, not only our relationship with God, but with others too! Many of us hold onto to grudges and bitterness towards (an) individual(s), but that eventually turns to hatred.  Some Christians try to heal the world, but fail to recognize the brokenness that is happening on the inside of them.

There also has to be healing amongst groups of people.  Pastor Fred mentioned how he never really associated with another church that was outside his Chinese culture.  The body of Christ is made up of different faces, cultures, and tongues.

I was deeply touched by this because I recently joined the GSA club at my school, and I haven't told them that I am a Christian.  I was/am scared of what they may think of me like: "is she joining us to tell us we are going to hell?", "what we are is a sin?" and other things like that.  I joined the club because I was always surrounded by a member off the LGBT community since I was in middle school, and I have never had a problem with them.  I really wanted to show them that being a Christian is to be Christ-like, and two of the most important things into being a Christian is following the greatest commandments: love God and love your neighbors.

After hearing this message I feel even more confident in what I am doing because I recently came across the Marin Foundation, a group that tries to create a bridge with Christians and the LGBT community. And with that being said...

Jesus came to restore our relationship with God that Adam broke, but also our relationship with one another.  Jesus sucked the poison of bitterness, hate, sadness when he took the sting out of death, and he continues to suck the poison away.  Salt purifies wounds, and Jesus purifies our hearts, he is our only cure and healer.