A Time for Healing....& Revelation

The word "healing" means something different to every person that hears it. For some that word may represent a physical healing, for others it may be emotional and for others it may be a relational healing. For some it may remind them of something they went through a long time ago, and for you it may be something your currently going through. This morning God had me thinking about healing....as your going through it...and after. What do you take away from it? How did it change you?

If you had a physical accident happen to you and you had a bad cut on your arm, would you try to figure out what happened, whose fault it was and why it happened while the cut was still open and bleeding? No, you would tend to the wound first and get it to a place where healing can begin...then after the wound has been tended to you may go back and try to figure out what happened. But it would be ridiculous to try to figure out all these factors while your standing there bleeding. Well, the healing God wants to bring us through is much like this. There is a time to allow God to work on your wounds and begin your healing....then there is a time to let God reveal to you all the factors that caused the pain your going through. But I feel it is extremely important to allow a time for both of these things to happen. There is a time for falling at the feet of Jesus and crying out for help and healing, and then there is a time to ask God for revaluation. One reason it is important to give each of these processes their own time is because God may need to reveal some things to you that would just be to hard to face while your still in the midst of the pain. Part of that may be your "ownership" of the circumstances you are in. I know that's not something we like to hear, but just like any physical accident, you may have to go back and look at what "you" could have done differently to help prevent this. Allowing God to show you this can (and should) prevent it from happening again. Unless you want to be a person that goes through life experiencing one similar trial after another, one pain after another, one heartache after another...let God reveal things in you...and change them. Pray for anyone else involved in your pain, but let Him change you. We cannot change someone else...we can only pray for them...but we can choose to allow God to change us, or not. When a wound starts to heal, and we have allowed God to teach us through that wound, we are more likely to never have to feel that kind of pain again (thanks to God).

God, thank you for your healing, but also thank you for pointing out in us the things we have done to cause our own pain. Thank you showing us that healing needs to come first, so we can be receptive to what you need to reveal to us, about ourselves. Help us not grow cold and bitter toward the cause of the pain, but learn from it.....how to love better, how to forgive (ourselves and others) better, how to rely on you better. Thank you for what your word says in Romans 8:28...that you truly can make ALL things work together for good for those who love You, and are called according to Your purpose! In Jesus name, Amen.