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Hi Friends, my last two articles are now continued [If you have not done so, you may wish to quickly read them first and then return to this one]
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.
God makes it clear that in every city (or, of course, every community, urban or rural) there are those who cry out and their cry is heard by God. He is not talking of those who in their defiance and sin have alienated themselves from the potential of His grace. He is talking of those who have been wounded and yet against whom He brings no accusation. “He does not charge them with wrong”.
They will fall into two categories:
- Those who are the victims of abuse or betrayal of another. They are wounded but without fault.
- Those whose wound is the result of their own sin and failure but have sought His forgiveness and mercy. They now are forgiven and partakers of His grace but their own reliving of their defeat keeps that wound open: their woundedness is one of an anguish of soul.
But friends, regardless of the original cause, they are those who currently fall into the category of those against whom God brings no charge of wrong.
The commission that God now brings to each of us who have known His healing grace, is to bring hope and healing to these ones who cry out. The challenge is that we can only do so carrying the marks of a redeemed scar, not an open wound; the fragrance of the redeemed not the stench of an embittered soul. We must be first partakers of that redemptive work of God’s healing grace in order to pour it into the lives of others.
In order to have an empowered present we must have a fully resolved past.
There is a difference between a “wound” and a “scar”.
- Wounds are the source of torment and vulnerable to disease. Scars are the source of compassion and vehicles of healing.
- Wounds produce condemnation and defeat. Scars produce hope and inspiration.
- Wounds when touched contaminate and infect others with disease. Scars when touched bring a revelation of mercy and the promise of a new beginning.
No one is exempt from the wounds of life, it is the choice of what we do with that wound: resent it or bring it to the cross of God’s redemptive touch.
Your world is currently filled with people that cry out in their woundedness and it is Gods most passionate desire that as you consider your own journey of pain that you will view it as your qualification to now minister to them, not a disqualification of that commission. It is your scar that empowers you now to be an effective carrier of his grace.
Love & God bless,
David
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