Healing from the Wound of Sin

just because I can't do everything doesn't mean I can't do anything ever names father Mike Smith and this is a sense of presence so I recently gotten an email from someone who had a really serious like deep deep question and the deep question was they kind of explained that they how'd I say this they listed a number of the the wounds in their life and this particular person was was was listing the number of ways in which they had misused their sexuality and they experienced like they were the big reason they were writing to me and listing off like here is the ways in which I have misused my sexuality men and my it has been misused by others is because they were experiencing a great amount of discouragement the discouragement was so will I ever really be healed like because I've done these things does that mean like I'm basically a lost cause and I just thought wow that's really fascinating because they kind of almost roam about they were almost about to land the plane and be like yeah I'm pretty much a lost cause when it comes to this aren't I there's no real hope for me when it comes to love there's no real hope for me when it comes to the Lord he probably can't do anything with me Kenny but well I have to because because I don't I've done these things I'll have to carry this with me the rest of my life right he can't heal me question mark period almost kind of a thing I was like wow I'm really glad this person wrote because the fact of the matter is and the reason I wanted to make this video is because I know that there's a lot of people who would also ask that same question they would say okay so does my past disqualify me from a future of freedom does my it doesn't do my sins disqualify me from a future of healing will I ever really be healed from my sins whatever healed from the wounds of my sins now if you're asking that question it means you haven't given in to fully and you haven't fully given in to discouragement that there is still that spark of hope and I just fan that spark of hope as best as you can because the enemy one of the things that one of his one of his worst insidious just like terrible horrible would call weapons is his discouragement is that that sense of like okay I can't believer can't trust that God can do something with me still I call my gosh fight against that maybe more than anything else that's number one number two is the Lord God is bigger than our sins like that's flat-out just hands-down 100% true the Lord is bigger than your sins now I think was st. Torres of Lucy who once said she said if you if you took all of the sins of the world like every awful thing and every egg that that we all recognize is awful like absolutely evil thing and every small hidden sin that's ever committed by every human being in the history of humanity and made them into this giant like ball of sin she said if you take that massive ball of all of humanity's sin and you were to throw it into the fire the furnace of God's mercy she said it would be like throwing a drop of water into a raging inferno so question what would a drop of water due to a raging inferno it wouldn't do anything they'd be gone and so we recognize this God wins like God's love is more powerful than our weakness that his Redemption his mercy is more powerful than our wounds and and our misery so keep that in mind God wins whenever we hand over our wounds to him he can transform them he heals them he sorry forgives them he can heal them even if here's the third piece even if we're not ever fully healed we know this we know this is true that there are eternal consequences to our sins and that's that's death that's hell there's also temporal consequences to our sins and some of those temporal consequences can be worked out in purgatory obviously but they're also worked out in this life so yes because I've done X sometimes that means I can't do Y anymore I just can't do it anymore sometimes those consequences are external to us in the sense that yeah I treated these people in such a way and we're not when I was in deep in sin or even just gonna I fitted my friends like this and now they no longer trust me so that's that's kind of like independent of of me it's outside of me right there's also some some consequences of sin that are internal and it's like yeah because I've given myself over to these sins I now experience I carry with me a woundedness I carry with me some wounds now those wounds can be healed just like those chips can be healed but they're not always healed and so that's when people start going like see that stinks you know because because if I'm not fully healed then how could God ever really fully use me and this is what we have to realize that um but yes sins have consequences eternal that are completely forgiven and temporal that aren't always completely healed but just because I can't do everything doesn't mean I can't do anything just because I have some wounds down carrying with me through this life doesn't mean that I can't still be that you can't still be the person God has called you to be and want you to be it was willing to be it wants to give you the grace to be able to be the example um I was watching uh I was on the gram right on Instagram and there was this guy who was doing deadlifts and this guy I have to have to admit I'm not only did he have it an intense intense beard like way better than mine has ever been he was also lifting heavier weights than me he had one leg and one of those legs he lost one leg in in battle now he could look at his life and say well what the heck see I don't have one leg I I will never get this other leg back and so because I will never get be fully healed I can't do anything I can't lift I can't be an athlete I can't I can't get getting into athletics I can't why bother being as strong as I can be because I'll never be fully healed but this guy did not say that this guy did not say - because I can't do everything that also means I can't do anything he's like no just because I can do everything I'm gonna deadlift this weight and it was like a massive amount of weight for any even person with two legs two arms whatever to deadlift it was amazing if he were to let the fact that he's not fully healed and in this life will never be fully healed in that particular way hold him back from even from being the person that God is calling you to be now I mean athletically whatever you know I'm saying you'd be giving up such an opportunity to live and the same thing is true for us spiritually there may be wounds that we carry with us spiritually and say well gosh I'll always be wounded in this way or that way I'll always have this weakness maybe it will maybe God will heal it because he can do that maybe but maybe you'll how always have that wound and you won't be able to be as free as you would have been if you hadn't given in to that sin or the old sins whatever the thing is but just because you can't do everything doesn't mean you can't do anything it is because you might still have some wounds that aren't fully healed that doesn't mean that doesn't mean that God can't do something incredible in you so rather than then looking at all the other able-bodied people around us all the other like able sold people around us and say I wish I'd never sinned like this I wish I'd never been in this situation I wish my life had been different I get it I get it looking at them Saints easier for them fine maybe it is easier for them but you're not called to live their life you're called to live your life life without wounds be so much easier it would be in some ways but you and I have life with wounds so God isn't calling us to do something we can't do he's calling you to live with your own wounds - every morning say God I need your grace again help me to move forward God I need your grace to come back into this wound because it's its wounds kicking back in its it's flaring up and I need your help because here's the last thing sometimes it's our wounds that bring us back to the Lord sometimes it's our wounds that remind us oh my gosh I need you so much Lord and so we wake up every morning and go to bed every night and we get that attack we get that we feel that that pinch and we realize that's right I need you and you're here for me so receive the grace live with the wound but embrace the Lord for always here to Center presents my name is father Mike god bless you [Music]

Channel: Ascension Presents

Views: 110,250

Keywords: Fr. Mike Schmitz, father mike schmitz, Ascension Presents, faith formation videos, partial healing from sin, God’s mercy and sin, justice vs. mercy, god’s mercy vs. god’s justice, difference between justice and mercy, forgiveness of sins, effects of sin, consequences of sin, hope after sin, is there still hope for me?, can I still be a saint?, fully healing after sin?, can i heal from sin, is there healing from sin, sexual sin, healing from pornography, second virginity

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Length: 8min 44sec (524 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 08 2020