When we come to the Lord, He will heal us and bind up our wounds, but how does He do this? Hosea 6:2 says, “After two days He will revive us, on the third day He will restore us.” But how does He revive us and restore us?
In this passage, we can see an arrow pointing to God’s plan for dealing with the sin and broken covenants throughout time - the gospel of Jesus Christ.
God sent Jesus, who bore the curse of the broken covenant (Gal. 3:13). He took the wrath of God, was wounded, and then died on the cross but “was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures” (1 Cor. 15:4). Jesus laid down his life for us, His bride, the church (Eph. 5:25), and we, as believers, were “in Him” (Romans 6:3-9)! On the cross, His body was torn to shreds, but the amazing truth is that by His wounds, we are healed (Isaiah 53, I Peter 2:24)!
Sin destroys, but God restores. It is at the cross of Christ that we find healing for our wounded heart.
We will see this increasingly as we continue in our study together.
We cannot fix the damage that sexual impurity inflicts, only God can do this, and He did it by sending Jesus to receive the intentional suffering of the cross. Jesus took on Himself all our sorrow and the sin of sexual impurity so that He might “bind up” of our wounds and provide healing to our hearts, lives, and marriages.
On the cross, Jesus was “binding up our wounds” even as He received His own deep wounds. Oh, friend, no matter how ugly sin is, it cannot quench God’s redeeming love. Where sin abounds, God’s grace abounds all the more (Romans 5:20)!
As I came to understand these truths, I felt my heart beginning to mend. The more I experienced the love of Christ from the cross (1 John 4:10 NIV), the greater the healing that came to my heart and my marriage. All the anger, fear, bitterness, and anxiety that sexual impurity brought to my mind, Jesus cast out with His great, sacrificial, life-saving love (1 John 4:18).
Question 5. As you look at the cross and see Jesus suffering in your place to heal you, what does it do for your heart?
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