And with His stripes we are healed. – Isaiah 53:5
Because Jesus was wounded, He received authority to bring healing to you and me. Out of His brokenness, others were made whole. Child of God, there’s purpose to the pain. Only the broken become masters at mending. Paul said that God “comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God” (2 Corinthians 1 :4). Find God’s purposes in the reversals of your life, and you’ll turn them into steppingstones to blessing. God doesn’t waste experience.
All of us have gone through things that we never imagined could have happened to us -but they did. The problem is, the same sunshine that melts the butter, hardens the clay. Experience can make us hard and cold or drive us into the arms of Jesus where we find answers and compassion. Today, you’re going to meet people who are hurting. They’ll relate to your experience, not your theories. Most won’t even listen unless you’ve “been there.” Child of God, let God take your wounds and your pain and make you an instrument of healing wherever you go.
