Part One: Reacting to the Top Moments From Therapy & Theology Season 8
Hello therapy and theology friends. My name is Shay and I’m here with two of my good friends, Amanda and Kayla today and we are basically hanging out and kind of just watching some of the most notable uh maybe like wisdom bomb moments. Um some of the most impactful things that you guys have really loved on this season of therapy and theology.
And so we are going to watch some clips in real time then have some discussion around it almost like if this was like our small group or something. So, I we’ve never done anything like this before, so I’m super excited. Are y’all ready to jump in? Anything you want to say? We’re ready.
We chat all the time, so this is going to be like old time. Yes. We all sit near each other at the office. So, um it’s honestly kind of feels like a normal day at work, right? Totally. Okay, so I’m not going to delay. I’m going to jump right in. We’re going to start with clip number one. Imagine if God showed his love to the people of Israel through the context of lovebombing.
Okay? So like just think about it. Imagine if God doesn’t give the people of Israel in the wilderness wandering daily mana. But instead he goes, “Hey, one day out of the week I’m just going to throw up a whole bunch of mana, a whole bunch of food, but then you’re all going to have to starve for the rest of the week.” You know, he doesn’t do that.
Imagine if um God was like, “Hey, you’re you’re wandering the wilderness and you know there’s a pillar of fire by night and a pillar of cloud by day, but imagine if God just was just like randomly I’m just going to stop. I’m just not going to show up and now starve you, right? and then show back up with nor and and I just think that it’s a fascinating concept that the principle that we find throughout scripture in terms of how God is actually trying to teach and train us to experience love is consistent faithful covenantal love. The
Hebrew word for this is is it’s a hard word to translate. Um most of your Bible transl if you have like the ESV it says um steadfast love. I love that. If I were to kind of translate it, I would um use a very long long chain of words. It is the has love of God is uh faithful, enduring, loving, steadfast, covenantal, never ceasing, never I mean that is the essence of what that has kind of love is.
And what’s fascinating with lovebombing is lovebombing is not a has kind of love. Yeah. There’s not faithful endurance. There’s not covenant loyalty. There’s not a never ceasing I in the the goal of love bombing it sounds like to me is to overwhelm your senses to a point to compromise your ability to think rationally. Okay.
So in this clip, well let’s back up a little bit. In this season we’re talking all about dynamics mostly in relationships that are going on behind closed doors. So, in this dynamic, they’re talking about love bombing, which can go behind closed doors. And Joel basically throws this like, you know, huge what if scenario if that’s the way that God loved us was like strings attached and these like huge grand acts or like gestures that kind of point back to himself.
What do y’all think about that? Well, my first thought is or what do you think about love bombing in general? Well, okay. Well, let me give a thought that I was thinking about God if he was like this. I was thinking he would be the opposite of everything Joel just said. So, he would not be loyal, he would be disloyal.
He wouldn’t be a friend, he would be an enemy. He wouldn’t be faithful, he would be unfaithful. He wouldn’t be true, he’d be like a liar. So, I was just thinking of all he was he’d be like opposite of all the things we’re used to. Yeah. And I he’d be very untrustworthy to me. So yeah. Yeah. No, I totally agree. And I think it’s the concept of being strung along and starving for for affection, starving for attention.
And I love that God is so intentional to never leave us in the dark. Yeah. And like he always is so faithful, so loyal, so intentional to show up in every season and provide exactly what we need. He never starves us of attention. He never starves us of his presence. It’s always available to us. And I think back to like times in my life where I felt lovebombed where it was like I was in these seasons of being starved of attention, starved of affection.
