Healing For Our Hearts And Bodies

Wednesday April 20, 2022

Every day of our lives, and especially when we come into recovery, we need the healing power of God to bring us to new life. Our bodies and our relationships are broken, and had we continued in our chaotic lifestyle, we might have died. To fulfill the demands of our dependency, we alienated our friends and family and abandoned all sense of right and wrong. We need help and we know it!

Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness? (Job 38:17 NIV)

The above words were spoken by God to Job who was being persecuted by Satan and was in deep distress. Job needed the healing power of God to restore health to his body and to deal with the traumatic events of his life. Does that sound familiar? One thing we know from the Scriptures is that Satan wants to steal, kill, and destroy us, whereas Jesus went to the gates of deepest darkness and death on our behalf. Jesus took the sin of the world upon Himself and tasted death for everyone, so we never have to. The choice of whom we will serve is ours alone.

But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. (Hebrews 2:9 NIV)

When we begin to make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves, we can often see where we began to go down the wrong path. Most of us needed healing from the harm we suffered, or from the harm which was a product of our sensitivity to what was being said or done to us, or to those around us. Instead of seeking healing for our hurts we chose to allow the character defects of resentment, revenge, rage, anger, and bitterness govern our lives. Through Jesus, God made provision for us to be forgiven, healed, and restored to life. Are we entirely ready to do what is right and allow God to bind up our broken hearts and heal all our wounds?

You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. (1 Corinthians 6:19b-20 NIV)

Prayer: Loving God, I am entirely ready to have You remove all my character defects. Please heal and restore me to new life. My desire is to honour You and others in all I do. Amen

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