Letting God Heal Childhood Wounds

There is no denying that our childhood shapes us. The homes we grew up in, the people who raised us, and the examples we were given all leave a lasting impression.

Our formative years can give us some great things. Maybe we learned compassion from a loving parent, or faith from a grandmother. There are parts of our upbringing we should be grateful for and carry forward.

But many of us also carry wounds from those same years as well. Some grew up feeling rejected, neglected, or never quite good enough. Some learned to hide their emotions because vulnerability did not feel safe. Some learned unhealthy ways of communicating, handling conflict, or understanding love.

And that is where we have to be careful. Familiar does not always mean biblical. And just because we have always done something a certain way doesn’t mean Christ wants us to continue doing it.

Our upbringing can explain a lot about us but it does not have to define us.

We can be knowledgeable and thankful about where we came from while still allowing Jesus to transform the places we were wounded.

Romans 12:2 tells us “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.”

Jesus doesn’t have to erase everything about where we came from in order to transform us.

He can take the best parts of who we became and make them better, while healing the parts that were wounded along the way.