Healing: The Mystery of Healing
We all face hurts, disappointments, pain, sickness and brokenness in our lives at different seasons. Because of Sin, we all need healing. We are broken because of our own sins and by assaulted with the sins of others. When we are broken, the enemy wants to use our fragileness and the defragmentation of the pieces of our lives to alienate us from others, ourselves, and even from God. We feel lost, scattered, and broken.
Jesus heals through His wounds, and the great prophet Isaiah foreshadowed Jesus the Healer when he wrote, “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” (Isaiah 53:5). Peter understood this as he also wrote that Jesus“bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness- by those stripes [we] were healed” (1 Peter 2:24).
It seems as a mystery that our process for healing starts with Jesus’s suffering. Yet, because of Jesus’ suffering, we have the possibility of seeing that which was once divided, fragmented, and scattered brought back together and healed.
When we embrace Christ’s sacrifice and accept His broken body, our hearts are opened to rediscover a personal, complete, healed relationship with Him. As Henri Nouwen, states, “Jesus becomes our Wounded Healer”. When we allow our wounds to be exposed and opened to God for healing, we open ourselves to follow as Christ’s disciples to become wounded healers for the Glory of God!
Reverend Amy S. Nutt