It is often true that people who have been where we are know how to speak words of help to us, better than others who have not experienced what we are going through.
If you are suffering and in anguish today, remember that Jesus knows your sorrow intimately because He carried it up the hill of Golgotha and died with it in his heart. And because Jesus knows your sadness and grief, He can speak healing to it in the way that you need; it might not be in a way that you expect, though. When Jesus speaks healing, He does not use mere words. No, Jesus steps into our need and meets it fully with His love in action.
Question 5. According to Isaiah 53:5, by what are we healed?
Jesus willingly subjected Himself to the pain and humiliation of our sorrow, sin, and shame because He was able to overcome it where we never could. His wounds were intentional and purposeful. They achieved for us the forgiveness of our sins, peace with God, and healing for our wounded hearts and relationships.
True healing for our wounded souls comes through identification with Christ on His cross. We cannot look to our spouse or others for healing because they were not designed to provide it; they are also wounded people. We cannot look to ourselves for healing because the wound is too great (Lamentations 2:13 NIV). We must look to Christ and His wounds because this is the Solution that God has provided.
As we look to Christ and His wounds for healing, we see His overwhelming love, and we are comforted by it! In Psalm 119:76, the psalmist cries, “Let your steadfast love comfort me…” And in 1 John 3:16, we learn that Christ’s work on the cross for us is the very definition of love: “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us” 1 John 3:16a NIV.
“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” 1 John 4:10 NIV
Oh, friend, looking to the cross is where we will receive our healing. If you look at the cross right now, you will see God’s eternal love for you. There Jesus hangs between heaven and earth, between God and man, being rejected by both! Do you see His heartfelt love for you there?
John 13:1 (NIV) It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
This is a love that would rather die for you than live without you, love that would hang in darkness on a criminal’s cross for you. Let this love begin to comfort you and start to heal your wounded heart.
Jesus told His disciples, “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” This is true for us as well. In this life, we will sin and be sinned against, but through His death on the cross, Jesus made atonement for both. At the cross, we receive forgiveness for our sins and healing for our souls because Jesus has taken on our sins and our sorrows and overcome!
Question 6. Are you looking to Christ and His cross for healing today? Please share.
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