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Let God heal your wounds!
'I will...heal your wounds...' JEREMIAH 30:17
Addressing students at Virginia Tech after a shooting rampage that left 32 of their fellow students dead, Philip Yancey said: 'You've heard, "Things will get better, you'll get past this." Those who offer such comfort mean well, and what you feel now you won't always feel...Yet you're a different person because of that day. When three of my friends died I came across these lines: "Grief melts away like snow in May,"... It did melt away, but like snow it came back in fierce, unexpected ways, triggered by a sound, a smell, a fragment of memory.' Yancey, who was recovering at the time from a car crash continued, 'Pain is a sign of life and love.
I'm wearing a neck brace because I broke my neck in an accident. The doctor kept asking, "Does this hurt? Can you feel that?" The answer he desperately wanted was, "Yes, it hurts, I can feel it"s proof that my spinal cord hadn't been severed.
Pain offers proof of life, of connection. In deep wounds two kinds of tissue must heal: connective tissue, plus the outer protective tissue. If the outer protective tissue heals too quickly the inner connective tissue won't heal properly, leading to complications later.' Real healing takes time; it takes place where God's presence, God's peace, and God's people are. Are you hurting today? Turn to God. His promise to you is 'I will...heal your wounds.
written by Bob Gass
