The Unhealed and Unresolved Effects of Past Injuries
This is a much larger topic than can be adequately addressed here. But because it is so very important to every person and every marriage, I must say something at least by way of introduction.
There is a saying that, "Time heals all wounds." Unfortunately this is not true. Healing may take time, but time is not the reason why wounds heal. A small cut in a dead body does not heal, even if we wait a long time. On the other hand, a small cut does heal when the cut is in a living body. It is the "life" in the living body that brings healing. Time does not heal. Life heals.
One of the more sinister aspects of sin is that it damages the human soul—our mind, will and emotions. Like the bite from a poisonous snake, there is a two-fold damage. First the fangs pierce the flesh—that’s bad enough. But it’s the poison that is injected into the body that causes the real damage. Sinful words and acts inject a lethal poison that cripples the human soul. Time does nothing to remove the poison or heal the damage.
Unfortunately, most of us have been taught otherwise. We think that if an injury to the soul happened a long time ago then it has been healed.
