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Given the reality that troublesome passions will be present with us always, on what do you base your hope that you can become a powerful provider of SoulCare for others?
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Reading this lecture and the previous lectures has shown me that everything I have been doing has been wrong. I feel like I have been asking questions for curiosity yes, but in the wrong way. My hope is that I can now see and know the difference, and will do a better job.
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Listening to these lectures have shown me how completely inadequate and messed up I am to offer SoulCare to others. My soul has been shown to be in need of SoulCare as defined by Dr. Crabb….to have an appetite for God that is stronger than any other appetite, such that all other desires or demands become second things. I have no hope of becoming a powerful SoulCare provider for others, except by the power of God and His Spirit inside of me.
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I know that if I were put in a soul care situation apart from the Spirit, I would come out of that time feeling more broken and sorry for myself then the person who was looking for help. Having my friend the Spirit with me pulling me out of the mess of myself, I believe even in that moment of soul care that He has the ability and can do the same for others. On the base of my inadequacy, and the spirit, will I pass my giving soul care.
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I know that I am deeply known and loved by Jesus. It’s not always a felt reality, but I hold on dearly to that fact. I have been in counseling before with a person who “fought for my soul” and understood the real battle that lies beneath the surface. As a result of be experiencing Soul Care in a Christian counseling setting, I had a strong desire to be able to do the same for someone else. My own journey has taught me the hope that Jesus is all I need to live in this fallen world until He brings us home.
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When I’m listening to someone share with me. I often pray as I’m listening that God will give me the words to speak or that He will just allow me to be present with them. My hope is in the power of the Holy Spirit is real and I need to continue calling upon that. I need to pray before every meeting I have; so that the Holy Spirit is already beginning to prepare my heart and mind. I want to draw from Him and not myself.