A Need For Closure
“For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.” - Jeremiah 29:11
If you want to live your life to the potential God has set for you and become all that He created you to be, you must be able to find closure from your past. Many believers, though they have given their life to Christ, have not come to terms with things that are in their past. They still deal with things that are painful, traumatic, and disappointing.
What often helps us move forward is when we can get closure from the people who caused so much hurt and harm in our past. Closure is defined by psychologists as the ability to receive information or an understanding that allows a person to obtain clarity, healing, and resolution for a traumatic, upsetting, or confusing life event.
Do you want to know why a relationship ended? Do you want to know how someone you trusted could betray your trust and abuse you? Cheat on you? Lie to you? Do you want to know why a parent that you loved did not show you the kind of love you think you deserved as a child? What you are looking for is closure.
And the reason closure is so critical is because as humans we understand the world through stories. We create a past, present, and future, and we navigate our world by structuring the events of our lives based on this cognitive understanding.
For better or for worse, we get a good sense of who we are, how we should feel, and how we are going to function from day to day when the aspects of our life story are clear and known to us. Understanding what happened helps us to reorder our story and to reconfigure our lives in such a way that allows us to move forward.
You may not like what happened or why they did what they did to you. But at least you have an explanation or an understanding so the issue can be resolved in your mind. This is what closure is.
Maybe you have found yours, or maybe you haven’t yet. But whatever has happened in your past, your story is not finished. Jeremiah 29:11 assures us of this when it says, “For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”
If you want to live your life to the potential God has set for you and become all that He created you to be, you must be able to find closure from your past. Many believers, though they have given their life to Christ, have not come to terms with things that are in their past. They still deal with things that are painful, traumatic, and disappointing.
What often helps us move forward is when we can get closure from the people who caused so much hurt and harm in our past. Closure is defined by psychologists as the ability to receive information or an understanding that allows a person to obtain clarity, healing, and resolution for a traumatic, upsetting, or confusing life event.
Do you want to know why a relationship ended? Do you want to know how someone you trusted could betray your trust and abuse you? Cheat on you? Lie to you? Do you want to know why a parent that you loved did not show you the kind of love you think you deserved as a child? What you are looking for is closure.
And the reason closure is so critical is because as humans we understand the world through stories. We create a past, present, and future, and we navigate our world by structuring the events of our lives based on this cognitive understanding.
For better or for worse, we get a good sense of who we are, how we should feel, and how we are going to function from day to day when the aspects of our life story are clear and known to us. Understanding what happened helps us to reorder our story and to reconfigure our lives in such a way that allows us to move forward.
You may not like what happened or why they did what they did to you. But at least you have an explanation or an understanding so the issue can be resolved in your mind. This is what closure is.
Maybe you have found yours, or maybe you haven’t yet. But whatever has happened in your past, your story is not finished. Jeremiah 29:11 assures us of this when it says, “For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”
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