E68 - The High Cost of Healing

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Hello everyone.

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And welcome to a

prisoner's part in podcast.

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Um, Meechie, Jay, your host.

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Have you talked to anyone who's

gotten out of jail recently or

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who is going through recovery?

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Have you ever heard them say

is just too hard out here.

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Bill's are high.

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I can't pay them.

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I can get along with my family.

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I can't find a job.

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Uh, everything is just too

difficult for me to handle out here.

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I can't make it.

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It's easier for me just

to go back to jail.

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Or just to do drugs.

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Have you ever heard

anyone say that to you?

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I know I have, and I know many

of you have as well, but did we

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understand what we were hearing?

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I know I didn't until.

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I read an article in one

of my devotional readings.

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That's when all the dots started

to connect, it was titled

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the high cost of healing.

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This really piqued my interest

because we had just covered

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recovery in my last two episodes.

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I want to share.

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What I found.

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So we won't be doing an interview.

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We're just going to be doing a chat.

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On this because this is something

we all should take into account

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when thinking about recovery.

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The article starts out with a

communication that Jesus had with

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Elaine man who was trying to get healed.

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You can actually check this out in.

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John chapter five or six in scripture.

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Jesus ax.

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Do you want to be made?

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Well,

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Don't you think that was an odd question?

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I thought it was really odd.

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I'm like, why would Jesus

act something like that?

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But again, we're talking about Jesus.

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In his wisdom.

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He was actually asking the right question.

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Because he was considering

the high cost of healing.

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He knew there was a lot more to

healing than just a physical.

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There will be a total life change needed.

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And that's why he was asking the question.

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Now, this leads me to

what are those high costs?

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One is.

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It will require involvement.

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This man can no longer hang out with

his friends at the pool law day.

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Hm.

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Any of this sound familiar?

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Yeah.

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It will require time away from some of the

people that the person likes to be around.

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Yeah, it would require that cost then.

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A lot of times.

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It could be someone very special to them.

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Too.

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It will require a person

to assume responsibility.

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That means.

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He can no longer lay

up all day and expect.

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People to give him money or handouts or

just provide, or, you know, just being

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around the house and not doing anything.

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Yeah.

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That's going to be a change because if

you're going through recovery, A person

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can be just used to sleep in all day.

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Uh, you won't be able to do that.

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So again, it would require a

person to take on responsibility.

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Okay.

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Number three.

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It will require hard work.

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Yes.

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The person will be expected to hold a job.

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And this may be something for someone who.

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May not have had a job in a long time or

someone who may not have worked at all.

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All of this is hard.

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I know when I'm on vacation at

times, it's hard to go back to work.

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Let alone, if you have someone

that's been off work for years.

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Whoa.

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That is hard.

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For.

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The person would have to have humility.

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Okay.

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They may need to start all over again.

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And a lot of people have a lot of

pride in, they don't want to do that.

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They don't want to start at the bottom.

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The person may have to ask

for help or just instruction.

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Yeah.

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That can be hard to a lot of

people want to pretend that they

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know everything or just don't want

people to know what they don't know.

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And that can hold a lot of

people back that humility.

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And the last one here is.

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Five is relationship adjustments.

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Yes.

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That is going to be challenging

too, because family members will be

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expecting things now from you that.

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They haven't gotten before.

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They've been waiting for a long

time for you to help them out.

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They've been giving you money and

loaning you money, or you don't just

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all always being at your Beck and call.

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Now the same family members are wanting

you to be involved as a family member to

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participate, to help them in their knee.

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Yes.

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That is the expectations in a relationship

is not just no longer one sided that.

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You'll be taken all the time.

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This time you have to be giving.

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And so the relationship.

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Yeah, these are some of the high costs.

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I just named five.

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So it was involvement,

responsibility, hard work, humility.

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And relationships.

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Adjustments now that we recognize them.

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We can now better appreciate

why recovery can be so hard.

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First off.

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If you remember my last episodes, we

talked about how recovery and recovery.

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It's the grip.

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Addiction has a grip on you.

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And it's just hard to get

out of you have that part.

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Now you have this other part,

like if you get out of it,

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this is what you have to face.

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This is the requirements.

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Now.

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This isn't easy either.

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We can really appreciate now.

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Jesus' question.

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Do you want to be made?

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Well, So, if anyone is going

through recovery, this is a

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question you should ask yourself.

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Do you want to be made?

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Well, Think about the

costs when you answer.

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Because if you do, it will require

you to do all these requirements.

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Which again is involvement,

responsibility, hard work, humility.

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And relationships.

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Adjustments.

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It will require a total change of life.

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So you may need to sit

back and think about it.

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And I can understand why.

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When people say, well,

I just made up my mind.

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I was done.

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I think they started to take

into account all these things.

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Now that we've provided

a here on this show.

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Maybe we can get through recovery quicker.

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At least I hope so.

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Now.

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Looking at this, don't

forget the benefits.

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Let's talk about those.

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You're going to have love.

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Peace.

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You're going to have

forgiveness and patience.

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You're going to have joy

and you're going to have.

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Uh, appreciation of life and what

you're doing, you're going to look

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back and say it was well worth it.

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So also think about these things where

you question, if you're really wanting

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this, do you really want to be made well,

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now.

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You don't have to go through this alone.

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You need help.

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Everyone needs help.

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You can't do it.

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Along, you have to reach out.

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Remember it's humility.

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You got to ask for help.

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Remember, it's also a

spiritual aspect of this.

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We are all human, but.

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In our humanist, we do have a spirit,

so that has to be addressed as well.

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With that in mind.

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I like how Rob.

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My last couple episodes ago.

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Go back in, listen to that.

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If he didn't hear it.

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How he looked to to God.

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To help him.

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Now being a spirit, he can be

with you all the time and you

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need someone with you all the time

because it's when you're by yourself.

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And you need that strength and you

need him to guide you through this.

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This is the only way that you can actually

overcome these obstacles now that you

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know, and you recognize the high cost, you

still need that power to get through it.

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That's why relationships are so important

And the number one relationship we

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should be acquiring is with the lord

because he is the one That is the

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foundation of all relationships.

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He sets the standards like we saw

here In scripture, he knew exactly

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what to ask, so he knew exactly what

was going on and he questioned him.

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Well, I hope you enjoyed today's episode

talking about the high cost of healing

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I thank you for listening, and may

you have a week filled with blessings.