Healer of Our Hurts

Joel 2:25
25 "I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten—
the great locust and the young locust,
the other locusts and the locust swarm [a]—
my great army that I sent among you.

As children of God, we have a Heavenly Father who has the ability and the desire to heal all of our hurts more completely than any loving parent ever could.

When my children were younger they ran to me to fix their hurts. It often times just took a simple mother’s kiss to make everything feel better. Sometimes, though it took a little more. I would pull them up on my lap, hold them, kiss them, and lovingly rock their troubles away. It didn’t occur to them to run to someone else. They had complete trust in my ability and my compassion to heal their hurts.

As children of God, He is our Heavenly Father to run to with our hurts. He has the ability and desire to heal all of our hurts more than any parent ever could. Our only hindrance in healing is running to someone or something else to fix it instead of running straight to Him. He is Lord Almighty who heals.

Some of us may have had an experience with a strong willed or controlling person in our past that has brought bitterness and division to every gathering. It might have seemed that their goal was to do the opposite of anything suggested and to prevent any cohesiveness in a group setting. We might have even anticipated their next move and maneuvered around it, as we prayed for God to change them or remove them from the gathering. What we didn’t do was follow Moss’ lead and simply cry out to God for help which would give Him both the problem and the solution. In crying for God to fix them and giving Him these two choices to fix things did not allow us to be opened and flexible. “Healing never happens when we throw our own remedy stick into the equation”. We need to allow God our Father Almighty to choose the third solution. Sometimes His choice is to heal the situation by exposing our sin. God wants us to love others unconditionally with His love .We must forgive them even though their actions may be wrong and not let our lack of love and unforgiveness get in the way. Often times for healing to occur in relationships it takes our allowing God to begin to fix us first.

Forgiving someone does not mean that they are right and we are wrong. Forgiveness is about what is in our heart attitude and following God’s command for our life. Only God can fill the voids and heal our hurts. Anything else is just a band-aid. It is time to quit being crippled beggars at the gate and to start walking in victory.