Are you wounded?

How many times, in your life, have you been injured? I have had several injuries in my life, to list a few I was thrown through a windshield when I was only nine months old which left a long scar on my scalp; then I was hit in the mouth by a swing which left a scar between my lower lip and my chin. While unloading the dishwasher I picked up two glasses which exploded in my hand and nearly amputated my left thumb leaving a long scar and multiple other burns and cuts, plus having several cysts removed from my scalp, so if every cut, scrape and burn I had ever gotten still showed, I would look like the Bride of Frankenstein but thankfully our bodies were made to heal! When my son tore the ACL in his left knee, a donor was placed in the torn muscle’s place with titanium screws it is serving him well and it has become his own.

When God created us from the dust of the earth, He blew His own breath into our nostrils we are His. We were meant to subdue, to dominate, the earth and all that was in it, we sold ourselves short for the lust of the eye for the forbidden fruit. We were able to walk with God, to hear and see Him. God made us from the dust of the earth. When Satan deceived Eve, God told him he would crawl on his belly and eat the dust of the earth, dust of the earth, right… US!  Giving up our rights meant sickness, death and pain, but our bodies retained the ability to heal itself. I watched the flesh of my thumb grow together, my skin knit together so beautifully that you really have to look close to even see the scar.

Point, we were made to heal. Jesus healed the blind, made the lame man walk, cured the leper, cast out demons and raised the dead! John 14:12 “Believe me: I am in my Father and my Father is in me. If you can’t believe that, believe what you see—these works. The person who trusts me will not only do what I’m doing but even greater things, because I, on my way to the Father, am giving you the same work to do that I’ve been doing. You can count on it. From now on, whatever you request along the lines of who I am and what I am doing, I’ll do it. That’s how the Father will be seen for who he is in the Son. I mean it. Whatever you request in this way, I’ll do.”

I’ve seen many miracles of physical healing, but harder to see is the healing of the “heart”. Psalm 34:18 If your heart is broken, you’ll find God right there; if you’re kicked in the gut, he’ll help you catch your breath. Psalm 147:3 He heals the heartbroken and bandages their wounds. Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones.

Even Jesus wept, over Jerusalem and at the death of His friend, Lazarus but when you let sadness and problems define you, you have moved out of the Garden all over again. God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love and of a sound mind! 2 Timothy 1:7

A favorite old hymn says, “He knows the bitter weary way, the endless striving day by day, the soul that weeps, the soul that prays, He knows, He knows. He knows how hard the fight has been, the clouds that come our lives between, the wounds the world has never seen, He knows, He knows.” Take your wounded, broken heart, to God, He will mend it and you will not be able to see where the scars were!