There are quite a few people around me who exhibit the wounds of spiritual injuries. These wounds are easy to spot once you know what to look for: like lack of self-worth, overwhelming guilt or grief, or even the depression of lovelessness, and a whole slew of other ailments. While this is, of course, not an oddity in itself, it is the manner in which these people deal with spiritual injury that warrants discussion.
These people, and many like them, seek physical remedies for their spiritual maladies. We know people who do this: they drink to dull their pain, eat to cover guilt, or commiserate with other lonely people just so they don't have to feel so alone. All in all, these are flawed remedies because they fail to address the heart of the issues, which are, in their most fundamental sense, spiritual in nature.
In the end, nearly every issue can be traced to spiritual disease, that is, to sin. And only God has the definitive cure for sin. Only by coming to Christ in faith will be be given correct vision to see properly that which is truly a physical illness and that which stems from spiritual disorder. As for the latter, God is the only solution. And we must seek after Him in faith and love for our healing and for our restoration. Let us remember that when we begin to use physical remedies to attempt to heal spiritual ailments. The results of such a misinformed endeavor will be only more spiritual ailment.
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