One of the recent insights that I gained into the book of Job and the Bible is that healing and restoration takes time.
I've heard the book of Job and the story of Job preached on and told about and complained about for years. The awful things that were done to him and to his family, his time of mourning and questioning and seeking, the friends that came to supposedly comfort him but actually didn't quite do that. The wife who told him curse God and die and he didn't do that either.
The whole story is just hard to swallow. Preachers will speak on it and talk about how the devil does this and that and he pays attention to you and God is watching you all the time and so many sermons about Job.
One of the messages that I don't remember ever hearing and the insight that I got was that healing and restoration takes time. Job had a wonderful life and prospered with lots of children and grandchildren and lots of flocks. And in a short amount of time it was all taken away from him by the devil after he and God conversed about it.
Job was blessed and prospered again. But kids take time to have and to raise. Kids take time to get grandchildren and get to raising them. Flocks don't instantaneously appear, they usually are grown through work and management of a herd. But the book of Job ends talking about how Job is prospered and continued on with the lord.
But that second lifetime took just that, a lifetime. And that was my insight. As i go through a couple of things in my own life that hurt deeply i'm learning that most people think that forgiveness and healing are instantaneous. We're Americans, everything is supposed to be instantaneous. But it's not.
Healing from a an emotional wound takes time just like healing from a physical wound does. Sometimes more so. There's not a solution. There's not something that can just be fixed and you're all better. Tere's not an instant release. In my case it just takes time to work through it and accept it. Accept that it happened, move forward from where you're at instead of constantly looking behind.
And i'm doing that on multiple things. It just takes time
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