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We Are Healed
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by Contessa Long
ld wounds are the worst huh? They are the
When God decides the right time for healing, He
injuries we tend to ignore because we have
puts us on our backs so all we can do is look up. He
learned to control the affect that they have
calls us to healing in His Presence as He fills us with
on our lives. They like to rear their ugly heads every
His fullness to overflow. “Deep calls to deep in the roar
once in a while, to remind us that they are still there.
of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept
So, we pull out another temporary band aid to cover
over me. By day the Lord directs His love, at night His
the pain and continue on with our lives.
song is with me—a prayer to the God of my life”
The human heart hates to endure the process of
(Psalm 42:7-8).
true, deep healing. It takes so long and may reveal things that we are not ready to face inside ourselves. The old wounds are the hardest to manage because we cover them up so well. We sometimes forget the fact that there is complete freedom in Jesus's name. When we are deeply healed of all ailments that keep us from God, we are able to live our best lives. “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free” (Galatians 5:1). God cannot heal what we continue to hide. He sometimes brings old wounds to the surface for a purpose. He wants to cleanse the wound with the Balm of Gilead and free us from our pain. “Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?” (Jeremiah 8:22). The truth
He cleans out our hearts while washing us in His
might be that we are not healed because we do not
Word and “creates in us a pure heart and a steadfast
want to go through the healing process.
spirit” (Psalm 51:10). We have to trust the process.
We use crutches to lean on instead of trusting
Yes, healing hurts immensely and yes, it can take time
God. It can be sex, drugs, drinking, medicine,
but it is all worth it in the end. He takes our bleeding
avoidance, anger, overworking, religiousness, etc.
wounds and heals them from the inside out. In the
We avoid pain at all cost, until eventually, like Psalm
process, those open wounds become healed scars by
23 reminds us all in times of healing and restoration,
which He calls us to share with others for His glory.
“He maketh me lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me
Healing becomes less about us and more about Jesus
beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me
and His Kingdom, because “by His wounds we are
in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.”
healed” (Isaiah 53:5).
32 // July 2021
