Why Don’t We All Want to Heal?

Lately, I’ve been sitting with a question that keeps returning to me:

Why don’t more people want to do the work of inner healing and change?

Not in a judgmental way.

More in a quiet, wondering way.

Because once you begin that work, once you start peeling back the layers, tending to old wounds, and inviting God into the hidden places — something shifts. Life doesn’t become perfect, but it becomes lighter. Clearer. More honest.

And from that place, it can be hard to understand why someone wouldn’t want that too.

I think part of it is this: healing asks for truth. And truth can feel terrifying when you’ve spent years surviving by avoiding it.

The Bible says, “The light exposes everything” — and exposure requires courage. Not everyone is ready to look at themselves without armor.

There’s also comfort in what’s familiar.

Even pain can feel safe when it’s all you’ve known. Change asks us to release identities we’ve built around wounds, stories we’ve repeated so often they’ve started to feel like home.

Scripture reminds us that people sometimes “love darkness rather than light,” not because they are bad, but because light asks something of them.

And then there’s humility. Inner healing isn’t about self-improvement alone — it’s about surrender. Admitting we don’t have it all figured out. Letting God lead us somewhere new. “God gives grace to the humble,” but humility is a doorway many are afraid to walk through.

Jesus once asked a man who had been suffering for years,

“Do you want to be healed?”

It seems like an obvious question, until you realize it isn’t.

Healing changes everything.

What I’ve learned is this: the work is deeply personal. You can’t drag someone into transformation. You can’t convince soil to be ready for seed. The same seed is offered, but each heart receives it differently.

So instead of trying to wake anyone up, I try to live awake.

I try to embody the peace that comes from inner work.

The softness that comes from forgiveness.

The strength that comes from renewal.

“Be transformed by the renewing of your mind,” Scripture says — not by forcing others to change, but by allowing yourself to be changed.

Maybe that’s how healing spreads.

Quietly.

Gently.

By example.

And maybe those who are meant to begin their own journey will recognize something familiar in the light …..

and follow it when they’re ready.