Topic: Relating To God And Others When We Need Healing

One way people relate to God is through an "I/it" relationship. When we hurt and need healing, we too often treat God as an occult power to help us get a fix for our healing needs. We too often try to use God as our servant or we try to "get out" of God what we want and need. We try to use Him in times of trouble to fix our trouble. We may often treat people the same way. We may often treat people as things to be used up and thrown away. We hear people saying the following about people they cannot use, control, or dominate…"I do not have any 'use' for them." God and people are not to be used or exploited, no matter how much we hurt and need healing. The darkness in us takes us to a point of trying to use God and use people. Everyone, at some point, tries to relate to God in this selfish way. We all want, at some point, for God to be our servant, to help us get what we want. More constructively, another way people relate to God is through an "I/thou" relationship. When we pray, we must seek an "I/thou" relationship with God, rather than seeking an "I/it" relationship. We must try to relate to God and to others as persons, not as things or as beings of impersonal power. We must try to relate to persons we love and cherish without trying to connect them to our healing. We must try to relate to God without trying to relate God to our healing. We must learn to love others and love God whether we are hurting and need healing or not. In our trials, we must learn to love God and others in a responsible, caring, giving, selfless, outpouring way with no regard for any kind of personal reward. Even when we need healing the most, when we look at others, we must regard others as persons created in the image of God who need to see Him in us.

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