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Dr. Crabb states that if you adopt the vision/goal stated above, “you will give up depending on your own competence. You will give up the pressure of having to make it happen, because you will know that you are out of your league.” How will knowing and believing this change the way you approach SoulCare?
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Knowing and believing that SoulCare is not successful based upon my mastering a process or knowing all the right answers will cause me to depend on God and the Holy Spirit’s leading. I can’t do it and I need to be okay with that and allow God to do what He wants to do in that person. Namely, that He wants that person to become more like Jesus, His Son, desiring intimacy with God, to honor God and to commune with God more than anything else.
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I seek to become a Christian Counselor and I am, thus far, thrilled to find this Program/Approach. Yes, it frees us from the role of being a “fixer” of earthly problems and wisely invites us to enter into a person’s journey with God in a way – The Way – we are all called to be transformed into the Likeness of Christ. Walking with a brother or sister seeking God, as in Psalm 139:23-24: ” Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. see if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting”. NIV
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I have always been a person who wants to fix things. Relationships, grief. In understanding this lesson I learned that I don’t have to fix everything but that I do have to discover, explore, touch and be known. But it also lets me know that I have to be willing to being open to being explored and known. However I know I am out of my league when I realize that prayer and talking to God and remembering scriptures is an important tool in soulcare. Really understanding a persons soul. Too many times I have received the responses used as examples. I love that I first have to search inside of myself inside of my soul.
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This is really enlightening. I have a very bad habit of wanting to fix things when people tell me a problem. Often, people don’t want a fixer, they just want someone to listen. Other people want you to tell them how to fix things. They (and I) want a formula that “works”. I’m not sure that I can effectively practice SoulCare because I know that my greatest desire is not to have an appetite for Christ that is stronger than anything other desire in the world. Can I pray for others to have a greater desire for Jesus when I know that I shut him out of certain parts of my life? I can pray for people and I can ask God to intervene in their circumstances, but am I willing to have nothing more important in my life than Jesus? I really want to direct others to depend on god, not on me, for answers but am I willing to do that for myself???
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It is a lot like the first step in AA’s 12 step program-admitting that the problem is beyond what I can overcome on my own. Not is it beyond the abilities of the person with the problem, it is beyond the abilities of the one trying to provide SoulCare. When we go to the Father in weakness, we are made strong through His Holy Spirit. So hard to remember and put into practice, because as Dr. Crabb states, we just want to fix things and not be uncomfortable.