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Job 24:12 “The dying groan in the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God does not charge them with wrong.”
This scripture talks of the cries of those wounded by life.
Friends, society is filled with wounded, hurting people. From the derelict in the street to the millionaire in his mansion, no strata of society is exempt. Many of these wounded people end up in church and they come bruised and bleeding, sometimes openly, sometimes well disguising the pain they carry within.
But God is not coming with judgment but with mercy. But through whom will God bring His healing, restorative work?
I believe that it is through those whose own scars qualify them to be touched with the cries of others. I have found that every person through whose heart God’s redemptive work flows is a person who has had to experience that redemption and healing themselves.
Jesus becomes our example and we follow in His footsteps. Isaiah 53:5 “But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.”
His wounds, His bruises, His stripes but OUR healing. He paid the price for our wholeness. NOW, as His Ambassadors, we by our stripes, bring healing to others. It is impossible to go through life without some form of woundedness. It is common to us all. But it is what you do with that woundedness that counts.
And here is the secret. When did the wounds of Jesus become truly redemptive? There was a process:
- The wounds were inflicted upon Him. (That is common to us all.)
- He bore them to the cross. (We take our pain to the Father and appeal to His healing and grace.)
- He went through a dying of who he had been. (The carpenter was no more.)
- He arose and left the grave behind but not as He was formerly, but now he was a new man – the Risen Saviour. (He had experienced resurrection life, God’s healing power.)
- So that when He showed his wounds to Thomas, they were no longer wounds; they were scars, redemptive scars.
When Jesus took His wounds to the cross, they became redemptive.
When our wounds are taken to the cross, they also become redemptive.
Friends, Our Father has an infinite capacity to bring us healing when we fully surrender our woundedness to Him. He knows that although Satan has had his agenda in the affliction we have experienced, His own agenda is the preparation of a vessel of life, identification and compassion for the healing of others.
I will continue this thought in my next article.
As one healed one to another,
Love & God bless,
David
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