Freedom
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Galatians 5:1
The journey from hurting to healing means learning to trust God, trust yourself, and trust others who desire to help you. The journey begins as we step into the freedom that Christ offers and learning to embrace the wisdom necessary to make choices which lead to life and health. In turning away from the behaviors and thinking which led to spiritual bondage and brokenness, we instead take steps that lead to self-controlled, upright, and godly lives.
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age… Titus 2:11–12
Formation
As we step into freedom, we learn new behaviors, form new patterns, establish healthy routines, and develop healthy thinking. This is a picture of discipleship which is best accomplished in community. It takes time, effort, and continued trust to build these new patterns and behaviors into all facets of life.
But that is not the way you learned Christ!— assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:20 – 24
Faithfulness
As we learn to walk a path of purpose and healing, the next choice is to stay on the path and share that same freedom and purpose with those in our lives.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10
God demonstrates what it looks like to be faithful and calls us to do the same!
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:1-3