We Will See It Healed

How is your heart? Are you joyful? Fearful? Anguishing? Are you content? Are you frustrated? Are you stressed?

I think no matter where we are today, we can all relate to feeling emotionally beat up, drained, exhausted. Many of us have been through seasons that have changed us. Many of us carry (consciously or unconsciously) the baggage or wounds associated with something we’ve walked through. Many of us look to the Lord and say, Father, I’ve surrendered, I’ve submitted, I’m praying, but I’m still feeling like… and you can fill in the blank. Alternately, many of us are dealing with the fruit of a broken heart, while ignoring what’s getting us there.

I’m reminded of Scriptures like Psalm 71:20:

“Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up.”

It’s a Scripture that tells us, we WILL see it healed.

But what comes before that? Healing in the Kingdom of God often equates to resurrection. And resurrection is always attached to death. (Booo! You can throw your tomatoes now.)

You see, the Cross is not a promise that we will never again touch death. The Cross is a promise that although we wade through the regions of death (heartbreak, manipulation, evil, hard times, suffering, etc.), it has no sting. It’s lost its power over us!

Alex Seeley said it this way: God is waiting for you to go through it to give you authority over it. We aren’t called to self-protect through avoidance, ignoring pain, and shallow repetition of Christian phrases. We are called to lean in, even to the dark places, to go through the pain and allow God to change us and maximize His glory!

“Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” (Isaiah 41:10)

We can forget that God spoke this to Israel in the aftermath of war. The people were traumatized, struggling to keep themselves together, fearful of what was ahead of them because of what they’ve just walked through.

Maybe you relate. If you do, I invite you…

1.     Remember God.
He is with you. He will never leave you. He is strong enough to carry your deepest burdens, and His kindness never fails us.

2.     Embrace the process.
Ask yourself tough questions. Engage with your story. Go to therapy. Wade into the waters you once feared to enter because death may live there. The only path to resurrection is through death. And it can no longer hurt you.

3.     Trust the people around you.
You do not enter those hard places of your story alone. You have a family around you - all of your Radiant Sisters, who can hold your arms and champion you. Even more importantly, you have the Holy Spirit, with all power in His hands.

The path to healing can be painful. But like trusting ourselves to the hands of a surgeon, we go through it with hope. I love you and am praying for you. We will see it healed.