Unhealed Wounds

I recieve these daily devotions thru CFAITH Online (to signup, visit: http://www.cfaith.com/index.php?option=com_alpharegistration&task=register&lang=en). They are always helpful and pertinent, and I just wanted to share this one with you:


Unhealed Wounds
By Ron Luce

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. "Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. "For my yoke is easy and my burden is light" (Matt. 11:28-30).


It's too bad we can't live in the Garden of Eden where everything was perfect - perfect weather, perfect food, perfect animals, and perfect people. No, we live in the real world. Along with the real world, we have real hurts and real pains that leave real wounds. If we don't deal with those wounds, they will fester on the inside of us and cause us to lose the edge.


There is so much hurt among young people today. Physical, spiritual, and emotional abuses happen to too many young children. Children are being beaten by their parents, sexually abused by family members, and verbally ripped apart. Too many suffer the horrible effects of divorce. It's a wonder any of them grow up to be halfway normal.


But they all learn to cope - one way or another - with their wounds. A rising number of teenagers suffer from eating disorders. We are seeing more and more violence in the nation's schools. Some run away from home, thinking anything would be better than what they are having to deal with at home.


Then there are others who bury everything inside until they are adults and then spend the rest of their lives in a psychiatrist's office. Sadly, many of the wounded people in the world today are Christians. The worst thing is not that they have suffered pain, but that they have never been able to let Jesus heal their wounds.

You may be suffering from a wound yourself. It may not necessarily have come from a parent or a family member. Your pain might have come as a result of a boyfriend or girlfriend breakup. It might have come from a best friend who betrayed you or gossiped about you. But it doesn't matter where the wound came from. What matters is that you have the Answer.


You may be thinking, Well, that can't possibly be me. Sure, I have been hurt in the past, but I'm okay now.
Are you really?
If you see the person who hurt you, does your heart rate go up?
Do you suddenly relive the pain, and do you want to see that person hurt?
Are there times your heart still aches?

If you said yes to any of these questions, you haven't allowed Jesus to clean out that wound and heal it.
Unresolved past hurts can render you virtually ineffective for the kingdom of God, stunting your spiritual growth. But we have the only Answer - Jesus Christ.

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised" (Luke 4:18, KJV).


What hurts do you need to release to God? Write them down as an act of letting them go and turning them over to Jesus, your Healer. Then when you are reminded of them, tell the devil that you have been set free.


Ask the Lord to begin healing your broken heart and your wounded emotions. Pray a prayer of forgiveness for not letting go of that hurt and the memories that are trying to devour your future. Forgive those who have hurt you.

Once you let go of these hurts, never accept them again! The devil will try to convince you that you are not really healed, and he may even have someone come along and try to do the same thing to hurt you, but don't accept it! The only thing you will be accepting from now on is the healing power of Jesus!


Source: Spiritual Shock Treatment by Ron Luce.Excerpt permission granted by Albury Publishing



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