Spiritual Neuropathy

There's a condition that I have called Neuropathy. It's in my feet and lower legs. See, I was diagnosed with Diabetes back in 2001, and the disease has resulted in this condition. The nerves received too much sugar in my blood and it killed them. There are no longer sensations of pain, heat, or cold. I could literally walk across scalding hot pavement and never feel any pain whatsoever. To me, it'd be no more painful than walking to my kitchen. I actually DID walk across hot pavement on June 6, 2009. Second degree burns on the bottom of both feet. My skin melted down to the very bottom layer. I never felt a thing. 

Now to some, this would seem a good thing! "YAY! NO PAIN!!! What could be wrong with that?" you might ask. Plenty. Pain is the body's way of letting you know there's a problem. If I could've felt the pavement was hot, I could've saved myself 7 months of healing, 2 foot surgeries, and 3 months of giving myself IV antibiotics every day. But I couldn't feel it and didn't know. 

I didn't write this blog to give you a medical lesson , though. Bear with me a moment. Neuropathy is caused from too much of a good thing. Sugar is absolutely ESSENTIAL to life! Let the brain run low on sugar, and bad things start to happen. Yet too much, and nerves die. The ability to feel dies with them. 

And isn't that what the enemy tries to do as well? Sure it is. Have one more drink. One more look. One more taste. One more dollar. One more purchase. One more _________ (you fill in the blank). Soon enough, the "one more's" become an obsession. Then a habit. And then they define your character. They change the way you act, respond, think, ...feel. And when you can't feel the things that used to give warning or bring you pause, you no longer have the ability to know something is wrong. You've pushed the Holy Spirit aside so much that's it's now just second nature. You've developed Spiritual Neuropathy. 

Have you ever found yourself doing something that years, months, weeks, days, even minutes ago, you would've sworn you would've never done? Search back in the recent time periods. Look at the decisions you've made. The compromised choices. The "this one time won't hurt's." The indulgences. The "one more's." You will find stop signs that you blew through that have landed you where you are today. 

So. Ok. I've messed up. Am I hopeless? Lost? What now? None of the above. But you DO need a time of reprogramming. You've programmed your Spiritual nerves to not work. But that's reversible!!! You just need to DAILY remind yourself who you are in Christ.

I've put some statements in a blog that are confessions of who you are in Christ. Look back about a month or so in the archives. You'll find them. Say them OUT LOUD DAILY!!! Yes!!! It makes a difference!!! OUT LOUD, please. Set up some accountability for yourself to ask the hard questions about your private life and to give you an objective point of view. This person needs to be a trusted mentor and Christian leader. And be in God's word daily!!! Let the Holy Spirit nourish your heart and liven the dead places again!

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