We Are Healed

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We Are Healed

by Contessa Long

Old wounds are the worst huh? They are the injuries we tend to ignore because we have learned to control the affect that they have on our lives. They like to rear their ugly heads every once in a while, to remind us that they are still there. So, we pull out another temporary band aid to cover the pain and continue on with our lives.

The human heart hates to endure the process of 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 might be that we are not healed because we do not want to go through the healing process.

We use crutches to lean on instead of trusting God. It can be sex, drugs, drinking, medicine, avoidance, anger, overworking, religiousness, etc. We avoid pain at all cost, until eventually, like Psalm 23 reminds us all in times of healing and restoration, “He maketh me lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.”

When God decides the right time for healing, He puts us on our backs so all we can do is look up. He calls us to healing in His Presence as He fills us with His fullness to overflow. “Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. By day the Lord directs His love, at night His song is with me—a prayer to the God of my life” (Psalm 42:7-8).

He cleans out our hearts while washing us in His Word and “creates in us a pure heart and a steadfast spirit” (Psalm 51:10). We have to trust the process. Yes, healing hurts immensely and yes, it can take time but it is all worth it in the end. He takes our bleeding wounds and heals them from the inside out. In the process, those open wounds become healed scars by which He calls us to share with others for His glory. Healing becomes less about us and more about Jesus and His Kingdom, because “by His wounds we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5).

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